In a message dated 6/10/2002 5:55:39 AM Eastern Daylight Time, jlstokes@supernet.com writes: << I think its an interesting question just how democratic the American Revolution was, your British loyalists who thought two thirds were against it may not have been too far off but we don't really know. If we assume the thirds Adams talks about were only males we still don't know how many of them would have had the right to vote. >> My understanding is that the Patriots were better organized all along. Also, the colonies had been running themselves, and were accustomed to look to their own local and colonial governments. When the split began to widen, government was all in place - and had been for well over a century. Anne