From 1763-1776, many Americans felt the mounting force and expanding intrusion of a Deep State and their anger grew.

America’s First Revolution against a Deep State

It happened in 1776 – America’s first revolution against a Deep State. President Donald Trump’s campaign promise to “Drain the Swamp,” if fulfilled, will bring a second revolution against a Deep State. The first Deep State in America was foreign born in 18th Century England. It impacted the Colonies through the Crown’s operatives and emissaries, some American born – some British.



Today’s American Deep State is born and bred in the United States. We Americans own it - it’s ours free-and-clear.

So what is the Deep State today? So what is the Deep State today? The answer is found in our past. Bernard Bailyn (b. September 9, 1922), Adams University Professor and James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History, Harvard University, received the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize for his book entitled The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution. Among his explanations for the American Revolution is one particularly relevant to today’s political environment in America. The American Revolution did not begin with gunfire at Lexington and Concord. Years before then, “the colonists believed they saw emerging from the welter of events during the decade after the Stamp Act [1765] a pattern…with increasing clarity, [of] not merely mistaken, or even evil, policies violating the principles upon which freedom rested, but what appeared to be evidence of nothing less than a deliberate assault launched surreptitiously by plotters against liberty both in England and in America.” (pp. 94-95) This “deliberate assault” traced back to the “invasions of custom officers” into the Colonies “born with long claws like eagles” dating back to the Seven Years’ War (pp.102-103). Along with the proliferation of British taxes on the Colonies came a growth in the American Board of Customs Commissioners born in 1767. James Wilson wrote that “the crown will take advantage of every opportunity of extending the prerogative in opposition to the privileges of the people, [and] that it is the interest of those who have pensions or offices at will from the crown to concur in all its measures”(Bailyn, p.103, italics in original).

British bureaucracy governing the Colonies was expanding along with its appetite for tax revenues In short, the British bureaucracy governing the Colonies was expanding along with its appetite for tax revenues. England’s wars had been costly, and more were ahead. In his chapter entitled “The Logic of Rebellion,” Bailyn quotes from John Allen (1741-1774), author of The American Alarm. Therein Allen stated that “the spring and cause of all the distresses and complaints of the people in England or in America” is found in “a kind of fourth power that the [English] constitution knows nothing of, or has not provided against.” This fourth power’s “overruling arbitrary power, which absolutely controls the King, Lords, and Commons” was made up of the Crown’s “ministers and favorites” who “extend their usurped authority infinitely too far” and make their “despotic will” the authority of the nation. (Bailyn, pp. 124-125) Bailyn, quoting Allen: “For their power and interest is so great that they can and do procure whatever laws they please, having by power, interest, and the application of the people’s money to placemen* and pensioners) the whole legislative authority at their command. So that it is plain that the rights of the people are ruined and destroyed by ministerial tyrannical authority and…become…slaves to the ministers of state.” (p. 125) [*“placemen” is British derogatory meaning a person appointed to a position, especially in government service, for personal profit and as a reward for political support.]

In today’s America, the Deep State is firmly established, intransigent, independent From 1763-1776, many Americans felt the mounting force and expanding intrusion of a Deep State and their anger grew. Here’s why: A Deep State is an un-elected, and largely unaccountable bureaucratic structure that, once established, moves nearly uninterrupted, guided by its own compass, beneath the surface of popular politics, at a level largely independent of the voting population, and nearly as free of those pols popularly elected by the voters. Because it is “deep,” it is subject to minimal democratic control. In today’s America, the Deep State is firmly established, intransigent, independent, and exists with the knowledge and approval of both major political parties. The Swamp is bipartisan. Bailyn taught us, in his book published by the Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (1992), that 240 years ago Americans revolted against a tyranny that was, in part, born of a Deep State in 18th Century England’s politics. Many in the New England, and throughout Colonial America, saw it, felt it, and wanted to be free of it. Others Colonials were comfortable with, and supported, the Deep State. Consequently, America was split. And that helped to bring on a war.



Lee Cary -- Bio and Archives Since November 2007, Lee Cary has written hundreds of articles for several websites including the American Thinker, and Breitbart’s Big Journalism and Big Government (as “Archy Cary”). and the Canada Free Press. Cary’s work was quoted on national television (Sean Hannity) and on nationally syndicated radio (Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin). His articles have posted on the aggregate sites Drudge Report, Whatfinger, Lucianne, Free Republic, and Real Clear Politics. He holds a Doctorate in Theology from Garrett Theological Seminary in Evanston, IL, is a veteran of the US Army Military Intelligence in Vietnam, and lives in Texas.

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