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American Patriots during the American Revolutionary War were Naturalists while the American Loyalists were Positivists. The divisive issue was, of course, whether the “The king is the law” or the “The law is king.” The introductory paragraph to the Declaration of Independence is philosophical combat against the ideology of the divine right of kings, justifying in the eyes of the world a revolution based on Natural Rights philosophy.

⁠— Armon Eaton