American Revolution

Standing Up for the French Revolution

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I've always found it interesting that the United States and France both celebrate their independence days, at least in a sense, in July, just nine days apart from each other. Of course, the American and French Revolutions were somewhat different in character. For America it was more a war of national liberation against what had become an imperial master, determined to keep its colonies subservient (the crux of Tom Paine's argument in Common Sense), though there were elements of civil war and social revolution as well. France's revolution, on the contrary, began as a strictly internal affair, an upheaval against a badly outmoded form of government and social system.

The Other Historical Event We Should Celebrate in July

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John Adams must have shaken his head as he watched delegates to the Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention filing into the West Room of the Statehouse on July 15, 1776. Across the hall in the East Room, Adams and his colleagues in the Continental Congress had recently voted to declare the thirteen colonies independence from Great Britain. Now the newly independent states would each have to create new "republican" constitutions. A month before, Adams had worried that the new constitutions would be influenced by a "spirit of leveling, as well as that of innovation." In the Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776, perhaps the most radically democratic in the world at the time, Adams worst fears would be realized.

Bastille Day--a French Reality--an impending American reality

July 14, 1789, France--a day immortalized by the Francophone civilization--and which should be seriously considered here in the Corporatist States of America. Funny thing, C.S.A. were the initials of the Confederate States of America. The CSA was racist and exploited human slavery to the maximum allowed by sound financial considerations, while completely ignoring the human suffering which it engendered in it's 4 short years of existence.