“While Americans toast their freedom from tyranny every summer, Britons get a royal wedding maybe every other decade, if we’re lucky.”
Reflections of a British emigre on American Independence Day
“Not that I’m mourning the loss of the colonies,” Seaton says.
Two points in particular: that Britain does not have a written constitution, let alone a Bill of Rights, and, “where America’s founding fathers safeguarded religious liberty even as they separated church and state, the Church of England – an institution created by another British monarch for entirely self-serving reasons – still packs to this day, as of right, the upper chamber of parliament with its ‘Lords Spiritual’.”
Back to our own perspective: “John Adams wrote to his wife Abigail, the day that Congress approved the Declaration of Independence ‘ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forever more.'”