Government is Incomplete Conquest

... taxation without representation, eventually leading to the Boston Tea Party and the Declaration of Independence. Stories of how political order developed beyond the kind of order found in tribal societies usually begin with thugs and bandits. Once the thugs ... ..., derived from both the Feudal aristocracy and from the rising elites of trade and commerce started out adamantly opposed to democracy. They feared and resisted extension of the franchise, and democratization more generally. Most of the Framers of the ...