What is phenomenal about the American Revolution and the subsequent founding of the United States? What are the criticisms of the Constitutional Convention, and how do they stem from the American Revolution?

Revolutionaries of the time, people like Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine said that independence from England was not only plausible but fated. Achieving independence from England was no small task. According to Ellis, “No event in American history which was so improbable at the time has seemed so inevitable in retrospect as the American Revolution”.

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