Patrick Collins

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“Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavors, the national interest, upon some particular principle upon which they are all agreed.” So wrote Edmund Burke in 1770, in Thoughts on the Cause of the Recent Discontents, his argument against his parliamentary colleagues’ treatment of Britain’s North American colonies. But the rebellious colonists seem not to have looked to Burke for advice.