Essay - The American Revolution Was Modeled After Revolutions in France and...

The American Revolution was modeled after revolutions in France and Engl*****

Abstract:

The American quest for freedom, modeled ***** reform movements ***** England and France, has resulted in the most revered democratic society ***** the world. We are free of the religious and political tyranny that plagued Europe in the 18th Century and early colonialists would approve of our government in 2002.

While the ***** Revolution and the quest for freedom was ***** after revolutions in France and England, ***** United States ***** done someth*****g ***** its *****an relatives admire - it achieved a st*****ble democracy free ***** aristocratic and religious tyranny - and this was accomplished in a relatively bloodless fashion.

Our success would meet with accolades from European philosophers ***** historians ********** Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Thomas Paine and Francois Furet. However, our ***** has also many developing nations and Middle East nations to regard us as arrogant infidels who wish ***** spread capitalistic and imperialism throughout the *****.

While people of all nations yearn for leadership, *****re ***** few citizens of any country that want despotic rulers or rampant poverty across their nation. Our modern democracy is based on self-***** and the people's regulati***** ***** our elected leaders.

***** wrote that it ***** the responsibility of those governed to be ever vigilant of the ab*****es ***** power enabled the aris*****cratic ***** or governmental *****. His *****sis is the bas***** for many a government reform group both in the United ***** as well as abroad.

In The Social Contract (1762), Rousseau writes: "The abuse of aristocracy led to the civil wars ***** the triumvirate. Sulla, Julius Caesar and Augustus became in fact real monarchs; ***** finally, under the despotism of Tiberius, ***** State ***** dissolved. Roman history then confirms, instead of invalidating, the principle I have laid down."1.

The late Furet helped the French people come to terms with the ***** *****. Furet claimed ***** in actuality, *****re were two revolutions start*****g in 1789 with the uprising against the Old Regime.

***** doctrine of human rights w***** established with the first revolution. An overthrow of ***** King Louis XVI monarchy and the Reign of Terror was the result of the second revolution. Furet has inspired ***** French by dumping the idea that ***** is synonymous with suffering, but ***** portraying *****se ***** separate revolutions as necessary steps towards breaking free of the grip of ar*****tocracy. 2.

The French Revolution ***** brought about ***** a we*****k ***** in ***** XIV and Louis XV, financial ***** land losses from ***** Seven Year War and heavy taxation of the lower classes. Add to that the new ideas of the Enlightenment, a new school of thought encompassing ********** and writings of Voltaire and Rousseau, and the influence of ***** American Revolution and voila - let the revolution begin.

The most notable ***** development of ***** French Revolution was the emergence of a National Assembly, which in its institution, disregarded the monarchy ***** was ********** on ***** of the common goals