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"...approximately three percent
of Americans now feel that armed struggle against the state would be
justified.
That may not sound like a lot when viewed on its own but a look at the
historical evidence provides some interesting insights. When the American
colonists declared independence in 1776 ( the actual war of revolution had
begun a year earlier) only five percent of the two and a half million
colonists actually favored secession from the British Empire. By the time
independence had been won seven years later, nearly a third of the people
had come to favor independence with another third remaining loyal to the
crown and yet another third being neutral. Only sixty thousand persons,
about two and a half percent of the population of the colonies, actually
participated in the revolutionary effort itself...."End Extract.
