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My professor just mentioned a progressive historical view that the American revolution was initially a populist uprising, and that the Constitution and other influences by the founder father's (wealthy elites) were in some ways, an attempt at counter revolution. Is there good evidence for this?

by /u/HotLiza in /r/AskHistorians

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