POLS 2003 Lecture 3: lecture3
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The fragment theory was espoused by us political scientist louis harts and. The original waves of english speaking settlers from britain in the. 17th and 18th centuries to north america brought with them the liberal values of liberalism and equality. The american revolution was led by colonies espousing liberal values. So they colonist who insisted on remaining loyal to the british crown were compelled to flee the new country of the united states after their side lost in the revolutionary war. These loyalists formed canada in a conscious rejection of american liberalism, bringing with them conservative or tory values which were no longer acceptable in the us, a country created in the name of liberal values. Now the tory values has been formally ejected from the s, that country evolved into a society. this is a society where non-liberal values are generally held to be suspect- un-american . In contrast, the loyalists who founded english canada were liberals, but.