The American Revolution as an Advancement of Empire

 It can be asserted, one may submit, that the American Revolution was fought in defense of the idea of an ever expansive British Empire of Liberty. This idea was simply continued after independence as the idea and reality of an American Empire of Liberty.

  The English Parliament never had the universal conception of the British Empire that the Americans, especially Ben Franklin, had. Some of the anti-Monarchical Whigs had such a conception. However, the Whigs were not powerful enough politically in the late 18th-century as to be able to change the nature of the Empire.

  The majority of the English parliament was still Tory and in favor of a monarchical, centralized idea of an empire administered from the Parliament in London on behalf of the King.