Excerpt from Political Ideas of the American Revolution: Britannic-American Contributions to the Problem of Imperial Organization 1765 to 1775 An acknowledgment 15 due to Dr. Andrew C. Mclaugh lin, of Chicago University, under whose inspiration this work was begun. I have also to thank Dr. Herman V. Ames and Dr. Albert C. Mckinley, of the University of Pennsylvania, and my colleague, Dr. William K. Boyd, of Trinity College, for having read and commented upon the manuscript. Especial thanks are due to my colleague, Dr. William T. Laprade, of Trinity College, for his care ful reading of the manuscript and for his many valuable criticisms. The U ni'z'ersity of Pennsylvania Law Review has kindly given me permission to reprint in one of the chapters a part of an article which I contributed to that periodical. Mr. Burton Alva Konkle, author of the forth coming Life and Writings of James Wilson, very kindly read and criticized the chapters relating to Wilson, and I am also indebted to him for the picture of Wilson. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.