Our Constitution is a direct result of the various freedoms the British attempted to remove from us at one time or another.
Yes, I know - but from our perspective here, Britain learned from that - and for Australians, the Crown has been a primary protector of our liberties against tyrannical governments for over a century and a half. We have had attempts by governments - three major ones in my view - by governments to try and get around our basic rights and constitution - and in each case, the Crown has stepped in to correct what was happening. In the 1850s, in my own state (then a Colony), people stood up for some of the same rights Americans had - no taxation without representation being one of them. In that case, there was a single small battle - the closest thing we've ever had to a civil war here. And at the point the Crown stepped in, and the people got representation - self government by an elected Parliament (the leader of the rebellion was one of the first men elected as eventually wound up at its Speaker for seven years) within a year. It's a very different history and a large part of the difference is because America taught the British government that you couldn't get away with what they tried to do in America. It was a battle they couldn't win.
We benefited from what America did. It changed more than just the US. It changed what being part of the British Empire meant as well - at least for places where most people were white - it took another century for the idea of self rule and rights to permeate into the 'native' colonies.
thank you for this information naturalman1975. I would never have known any of this but for your post.
Unfortunately, the left we have to deal with today in the US is still, in many respects, the revolutionary types who simply want to destroy everything.
Thanks again,
txnativegop