The ‘no kings’ movement of 1776 centered on one big idea

The 13 American colonies embraced government 'of laws, not of men,' and they strove to limit the power of future presidents.
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Gangs of New York: America’s revolution was fought across the city — intimately and ferociously

“The United States came out of violence,” the historian Maya Jasanoff reminds us in our series “The American Revolution” (premiering tonight on PBS). And in 1776, the awful violence of war was ...