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Book Chapter
Too Much Power over Our Common People
2023
Overview
This chapter examines how the DeLanceys legislated when they were in power, showing how they implemented their political beliefs and followed through on much of what they campaigned on. The DeLanceys had expanded the ways in which non-elites could take part in their city's political culture, inundating public spaces with eighteenth-century conceptions of manliness and civic virtue to create an informal civic-minded political association with broad-based support. They also rearticulated their commitment to be the people's representatives within the assembly. They increased their future loyalist votes in 1769 by 44 percent, while the Livingstons' future loyalist votes fell by 29 percent. The DeLanceys' rhetoric about securing economic independence spoke to the interests that mattered to these men. Indeed, many future loyalists associated with the DeLanceys, and through their association, they cultivated a group consciousness that encouraged partisanship within New York.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Subject
ISBN
9781501769108, 1501769103
