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This month, we turn our focus to the constitutional questions at the heart of the American Revolution. While the soaring rhetoric of rights in the Declaration of Independence is what many remember most, the bulk of the document is a legal indictment—accusing the British Parliament of violating long-established constitutional norms.
The lead essay, by Helen Dale, explores the transnational impact of America’s founding texts, tracing how the Declaration and Constitution shaped Australia’s own constitutional development. Dale’s analysis is complemented by a new pamphlet essay from A Call to Liberty co-editor Sarah Skwire, who probes how a shared legal and political vocabulary may have paradoxically fueled the conflict—raising the provocative question: Was this a family quarrel that turned into a revolution?
Join us this month as we explore how the Declaration’s constitutional legacy continues to resonate—and divide—across centuries and continents.
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