================== HES POSTING ======================= A glance at the history of the Whig division into Country and Court Whigs after the Glorious Revolution of 1688, and at the history of the echo of those parties in the rise of Republicans and Democrats in the United States, and of the Tories and Grits in Upper Canada, and a glance at the role that federation was to play in maintaining the unity of the Empire first, later of the United States, and finally of Canada, and, yet, a further glance at Adam Smith's views on federation as an instutional instrument, and some light will be shed on the relationship between the thought of Adam Smith and the American Revolution. But, of course, there are many other ways of coming at the relationship between an historically relevant book published in the same year as an event as momentous as the American Revolution, and the event itself. R. Neill ============ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ============ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]