revolutionary

(adjective)

Of or pertaining to a revolution in government; tending to, or promoting, revolution; as, revolutionary war; revolutionary measures; revolutionary agitators.

Examples of revolutionary in the following topics:

  • Political Strife and American Independence

    • On May 10, 1776, Congress passed a resolution recommending that any colony lacking a proper (i.e. a revolutionary) government should form such.
    • The resolution of independence was delayed for several weeks as revolutionaries consolidated support for independence in their home governments.
    • The Continental was a bill issued by Congress to fund the Revolutionary War.
  • The First Continental Congress

    • By the time the second Congress met, the Revolutionary War had already begun, and the issue of independence, rather than a redress of grievances, dominated the debates.
    • Identify the historical role played by the Correspondence Committees during the American Revolutionary War
  • The Second Continental Congress

    • By the time the Second Continental Congress met, the American Revolutionary War had already started with the battles of Lexington and Concord.
    • Discuss the role of the Second Continental Congress during the American Revolutionary war
  • The Act of Organizing: Constitutive Decisions

    • Likewise, the decisions by Lenin and his associates regarding the pre-revolutionary organization of the Communist Party continued to have important consequences as the Soviet Union approached the end of the twentieth century, more than 70 years later.
  • Terrorism

    • Terrorism has been practiced by a broad array of political organizations, including right-wing and left-wing political parties, nationalistic groups, religious groups, revolutionary groups, and ruling governments.
  • The Declaration of Independence

    • The Declaration was ultimately a formal explanation of why Congress had voted on July 2 to declare independence from Great Britain, more than a year after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War.
  • Popular Consent, Majority Rule, and Popular Sovereignty

    • Thenceforth, American revolutionaries generally agreed and were committed to the principle that governments were legitimate only if they rested on popular sovereignty–that is, the sovereignty of the people.
    • This idea—often linked with the notion of the consent of the governed—was not invented by the American revolutionaries.
  • Fours Schools of Economic Thought: Classical, Marxian, Keynesian, and the Chicago School.

    • Because of its impact on economic analysis, this book is often called "revolutionary. "
  • Towards a Systematic Conceptualization of Politics

    • In public life, by contrast, the breakthroughs are made by the "engineers" (active politicians: elected officials, administrators, revolutionaries) and later, often much later, political scientists get around to noticing them, describing them, and criticizing them.
  • Primary Sources of American Law

    • At both the federal and state levels, the law of the United States was originally largely derived from the common law system of English law, which was in force at the time of the Revolutionary War.
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