Pamphlets are small but long enough to contain full arguments / cheap to produce. That political theorists using terms such as "slavery" "corruption" and "conspiracy" felt these deeply and weren't simply propaganda (to them).
Questions of representation and limitations of government into distinct spheres to check absolute power were key. The American Revolution is something that happened in the minds of thinkers long before the Revolutionary War (see Jefferson quote in 1815 in Chapter I) and especially rooted in British thought, much of what was consumed with concern over the limits of power and conflict with liberty.
Title: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
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