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I'm John Batchel, visiting with Jonathan Healy, an associate professor of history, social history at Oxford University, most importantly the author of a book, I highly recommend to understand where America comes from.

The Blazing World, a new history of Revolutionary England, 6003 to 1689, to my reading as an

amateur, the cases and the presentations and the passions in Jonathan's book will

reappear as if by magic in the founders of the United States of America.

And the arguments that are in the 17th century are still with us.

I understand we've done a deal of learning since then, but the same idea of Regents versus

the people, and what is the correct way to govern?

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