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To: higgmeister

“George Washington warned our young nation about “foreign entanglements” after he had unpleasant entanglements with the French!

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Do I have to remind you that the American constitution was in large parts copied and pasted from French revolutionary values, practices and theories?


126 posted on 05/20/2024 11:36:47 AM PDT by USA-FRANCE (The only thing needed for Evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing.)
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To: USA-FRANCE
Do I have to remind you that the American constitution was in large parts copied and pasted from French revolutionary values, practices and theories?

That is a lie.

James Madison began writing the Constitution in early 1787, while preparing for the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. Madison was a delegate to the Continental Congress from 1780-83 and 1787-88, and his "Notes of Debates in the Continental Congress" provides information about Congress's activities leading up to the Constitution.
Our Constitution was ratified in 1788 and went into effect in 1789.

Then there is this about the French Constitution.

The French created the first written constitution of France, the Constitution of 1791, during the French Revolution. The National Assembly drafted the constitution throughout 1790, with many committees formed to consider issues related to citizenship, monarchy, and more. The constitution was inspired by Enlightenment political theorists like John Jacques Rousseau and Baron de Montesquieu, as well as the recently drafted United States Constitution. King Louis XVI accepted the constitution in September 1791, ending the absolute monarchy and establishing a constitutional monarchy.
A Comparison of Constitutionalism in France and the United States
The twin traumas of revolution and post-revolutionary turmoil gave birth to new political societies in both the United States and France. New political understandings were embodied in institutional arrangements and in legal conceptions associated with certain foundational texts-the Constitution in the United States and the Code civil in France. As a result, constitutionalism took deep roots in the United States, but did not do so in France. It is only recently, as the political heritage and conceptual categories of the Revolution fade in importance, that ideas usually associated with constitutional government, like judicial review of legislation and the limitation of executive power by courts pursuant to substantive constitutional standards, have begun to make much actual headway in France. The long resistance of French society to constitutional government attests to the perspicacity of Montesquieu and Rousseau who both regarded institutional and legal understandings established at the birth of political societies as formative and difficult, if not impossible, to alter subsequently.276

132 posted on 05/20/2024 12:32:54 PM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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To: USA-FRANCE; higgmeister
Do I have to remind you that the American constitution was in large parts copied and pasted from French revolutionary values, practices and theories?

The biggest load of Bull Shite from the Horse Manure Frog yet.

James Madisonis the primary and leading author of the Constitution, and his notes, records and the Federalist Papers (by Madison and other authors) prove that.

Much thought and Principle was garnered from the Magna Carta, English Common Law, John Locke, Edward Coke and William Blackstone.

The small contribution of French thought came from the WRITINGS of Baron Montesquieu who died in 1755, not participating in either the American or French Revolutions.

Knock off the Lying.

148 posted on 05/20/2024 4:55:38 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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