>I vaguely remember a historian's claim that about 1/3 of the American
>colonists in the mid 1700s supported the revo, 1/3 were loyal to
>G III, and 1/3 were undecided/ambivalent. Don't know if this
>is accurate, but I think Carrol has a good point: political
>change is not simply a product of universal consensus.
For sure, but it requires more than a lunatic fringe, and we're not doing much better than that right now.
Doug