America was the Enlightenment's greatest creation.
Agreed! And the revolution could have gone horribly wrong, like it did in France.
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Hear hear. In middle of reading Yuval Levin’s The Great Debate (Burke, Paine). Further clarifying the Revolution points.
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Not so! The American and French revolutions were fundamentally different beasts. One was undertaken to protect and preserve an inherited way of life and self-government that was being threatened, and the other was undertaken as class warfare in search of "liberation"
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The American revolution was never going to go wrong the way the French revolution did.
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