[Rummyfan]

John Steinbeck noted that the American Revolution was different from that of France's or Russia's because the so-caled revolutionaries'did not want a new form of government; they only wanted the same kind, run by themselves."

If true, that desire was certainly not borne out in facts: no monarch, a bicameral legislature with two active chambers, a judiciary, and many powers ceded to the state level. How does that represent the British Parliamentary system?

[Fiji Hill]

I had the same thought. Steinbeck may have been an acclaimed writer, but this is a rather moronic statement. It raises a question as to whether he was familiar with the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Federalist Papers.