Interesting question: Could we still win a revolutionary war?

The Independence Day season is a time to ask a hard question.Could the Americans of today have won the Revolutionary War—and would they even have wanted to fight it?

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Our leaders have plenty to say about freedom, though none say it as well as Thomas Jefferson did in the Declaration of Independence.

Yet no words, not even Jefferson’s, could persuade the British to set us free. That was the task of arms.

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