It has been said that Joseph Galloway, a political leader of colonial Pennsylvania, proposed plans of Anglo-American union in order to satisfy his mean political ambitions. His plans have also been regarded nothing but an evidence that he was “loyal” to the British Crown and, thus, was a betrayer to...
It has been said that Joseph Galloway, a political leader of colonial Pennsylvania, proposed plans of Anglo-American union in order to satisfy his mean political ambitions. His plans have also been regarded nothing but an evidence that he was “loyal” to the British Crown and, thus, was a betrayer to “patriotic” colonial causes. Examining the union plans that Galloway proposed in 1774, 1779, 1780-81, 1785 and 1788, however, the study argues that Galloway was not blind loyal to England. First, the plans were motivated by his love for the American colonies, and by his pride of the “ideal” English constitution which he believed guaranteed the rights and liberty of the American colonists as well as the English. Second, Galloway thought that the British government of the time was aberrant from the original spirit of the constitution, that it consequently enforced “tyrannical” imperial laws on American colonies, and that it was, thus, in need of reformation. Last, Galloway envisioned an American council which would be institutionally equal to the British Parliament in dealing with American agendas, and which would preserve the union of American colonies as one entity. In an effort to understand the American Revolution in particular and American history in general from a more balanced perspective, the study challenges the legitimacy of the labels “Loyalists” and “Tories” in the revolutionary years. It proposes that those who were opposed to independence of the American colonies from England should be called “anti-Revolutionaries.”
It has been said that Joseph Galloway, a political leader of colonial Pennsylvania, proposed plans of Anglo-American union in order to satisfy his mean political ambitions. His plans have also been regarded nothing but an evidence that he was “loyal” to the British Crown and, thus, was a betrayer to “patriotic” colonial causes. Examining the union plans that Galloway proposed in 1774, 1779, 1780-81, 1785 and 1788, however, the study argues that Galloway was not blind loyal to England. First, the plans were motivated by his love for the American colonies, and by his pride of the “ideal” English constitution which he believed guaranteed the rights and liberty of the American colonists as well as the English. Second, Galloway thought that the British government of the time was aberrant from the original spirit of the constitution, that it consequently enforced “tyrannical” imperial laws on American colonies, and that it was, thus, in need of reformation. Last, Galloway envisioned an American council which would be institutionally equal to the British Parliament in dealing with American agendas, and which would preserve the union of American colonies as one entity. In an effort to understand the American Revolution in particular and American history in general from a more balanced perspective, the study challenges the legitimacy of the labels “Loyalists” and “Tories” in the revolutionary years. It proposes that those who were opposed to independence of the American colonies from England should be called “anti-Revolutionaries.”
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