Surprise, surprise... The French Enlightenment had a great impact on our colonial leaders and founding fathers. Our public schools are woefully negligent in teaching such philosophical views on government and a free society.
The writings of great French Philosophers such as Voltaire, Rousseau, and Montesquieu were found on most of our fore Father's library shelves. French nobles participated in the revolutionary war directly. Several played an important role in mobilizing our colonial fathers to take up arms against the Crown. It was the French philosophers who had the greatest impact on the writers of the Declaration of Independence and whose views formed many of the concepts used in establishing our Republican form of Constitutional Government.... of the People, for the Pepole, and by the Pepole, We owe a great debt to France.,
Our first revolution began with the French Enlightenment period... culminating with the French Revolution of 1789 immediately following the US Revolution. Is it possible that we may once again be moved by our French brothers and sisters to take up the sword against tyranny? Possibly, but it will take more than a few riots and demonstrations half a world away to move our current population to take up arms... we shall see shortly as our nations' problems move from our houses of government into the streets and living rooms of our citizens.
It started here. The story I got was the French police wrongfully killed a young girl and that event set off the riots. Remember George Floyd riots? What’s the difference? Will they come here? They started here and they will recycle back in a few months.
Where will the riot demons land? Some liberal city that will have a minority or trans person tragedy.
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Surprise, surprise... The French Enlightenment had a great impact on our colonial leaders and founding fathers. Our public schools are woefully negligent in teaching such philosophical views on government and a free society.
The writings of great French Philosophers such as Voltaire, Rousseau, and Montesquieu were found on most of our fore Father's library shelves. French nobles participated in the revolutionary war directly. Several played an important role in mobilizing our colonial fathers to take up arms against the Crown. It was the French philosophers who had the greatest impact on the writers of the Declaration of Independence and whose views formed many of the concepts used in establishing our Republican form of Constitutional Government.... of the People, for the Pepole, and by the Pepole, We owe a great debt to France.,
Our first revolution began with the French Enlightenment period... culminating with the French Revolution of 1789 immediately following the US Revolution. Is it possible that we may once again be moved by our French brothers and sisters to take up the sword against tyranny? Possibly, but it will take more than a few riots and demonstrations half a world away to move our current population to take up arms... we shall see shortly as our nations' problems move from our houses of government into the streets and living rooms of our citizens.
It started here. The story I got was the French police wrongfully killed a young girl and that event set off the riots. Remember George Floyd riots? What’s the difference?
Will they come here? They started here and they will recycle back in a few months.
Where will the riot demons land? Some liberal city that will have a minority or trans person tragedy.
Eventually people get fed up!