William (04-23-2019)
stjames1_53 (03-10-2019)
"Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining"----Fletcher in The Outlaw Josey Wales
stjames1_53 (03-10-2019)
stjames1_53 (03-10-2019)
I rather think the Americans were inspired by Locke and thinkers like him while the French were inspired by Rousseau and thinkers like him. One might think of it as, while both were Enlightenment-based liberalism, a difference in emphasis on individualism vs egalitarianism. One led to the United States, the other to Napolean.
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler
Peter1469 (03-10-2019)
There was no attempt to create a society based on equality of outcome. There was certainly mob and government violence and they did appropriate properties held by the monarchy. The American revolution appropriated British property as well.
I call it the French Revolution.
Last edited by MisterVeritis; 03-09-2019 at 11:06 PM.
Call your state legislators and insist they approve the Article V convention of States to propose amendments.
I pledge allegiance to the Constitution as written and understood by this nation's founders, and to the Republic it created, an indivisible union of sovereign States, with liberty and justice for all.
stjames1_53 (03-10-2019)