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American Revolution goal

A changing Patriot coalition converted disputes over imperial jurisdiction into a claim that legitimate government rests on rights, consent, and self-rule. Its committees, congresses, declarations, armies, and confederation made that claim actionable while restricting who could authorize power and imposing revolutionary rule on dissenting and colonized communities.

How did resistance to imperial rule become a claim that legitimate authority comes from a self-governing people?

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French Revolution goal

The French Revolution's opening project transferred sovereignty from king and estates to the nation, attacked inherited privilege, and declared equal rights, while leaving unresolved who could exercise citizenship and how popular authority would survive war and faction.

How could a society of inherited estates become a nation of equal citizens without reproducing sovereignty in a new form?