Quote Originally Posted by Philipvs Vallindervs Calicvla View Post
So the Revolution didn't do much for political equality, especially since legal Apartied continued into the 1960's. In any case, citizenship did not necessarily equate to "voting rights" because the US had applied property qualifications to citizen sufferage in the past. In any case, as I have already said, there was never a racially discrimination between British Subjects in the UK, so that's not something to crow about.
By the 1860s property requirements for voting purposes were ancient history. Citizenship was the universal factor that granted voting rights.

Why fight a brutal Civil War when you can live in peace and negotiate?
Events like the Boston Massacre leave little room for negotiation.

That is patently not true, as you yourself have admitted the London had already compromised on the tax issue, and Howe was authorised to negotiate, it was the Patriots you declared "give me liberty or give me death."
Too little, too late.

Objectively, this is clearly not true. The original US Constitution is a seriously flawed document from the perspective establishing "Freedom" and you had to have another Civil War to sort it out.
The interpretation of freedom might have been flawed at the time, but the Constitution itself had it right from the beginning.

True, but not the point. Particularly if you were to ask Sitting Bull or Crazy Horse, who were murdered during Parlay.
Crazy Horse had plenty of blood on his hands.

If Washington had brought the Virginia Regiment to the Loyalist side he would have recieved a Regular Commission.
By then he didn't want it.