Reassessing Bernard Bailyn’s The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution on the Occasion of its Jubilee.

The article reassesses the book "The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution" by Bernard Bailyn. It states that the traditional intellectual interpretation of the origins of the Revolution had been transformed and refines into the formal discourse of natural and constitutional rights. It also mentions that as these interpretations were refined, they faced a challenge from the emergency of new theories of human behavior.