Ken Burns

We're saying that everything that you're about to hear is without argument, which is like

like really in-your-face bold move in the intimacy, the human intimacy that gets communicated when you spend even a little amount of time trying to parse this, trying to get at the heart of the dynamics of dumping tea and dressed as Indians or writing these words, you know, that mankind are disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable, meaning, yeah, we've taken it, all this through human history, and guess what?

We're not going to take it anymore.

This is extraordinary.

It's extraordinary.

So lots of factors.

First of all, it was true what I said.

They have experienced at a reserve and at sort of, as somebody said, salutary neglect.

People didn't pay attention to the colonists.

And they had learned suddenly they were more literate than their British compatriots.

They paid less taxes and they paid it to local stuff and they were – had land.

And most folks in England and Wales and Scotland and Ireland were –

living dependent lives.

They'd work the land of somebody else for a thousand years.

So they've got this British constitutional monarchy, which is a really strong thing.

And King George is not a bad guy.

He really does believe that Parliament has this role to play in the House of Lords and the House of Carmens.

They're kind of the checks and balances that we'd think of.

But they're also in the middle of the Enlightenment, where they're beginning to say that there are certain rights that are

Natural.