The French and American Revolutions In this paper we will discus and compare the French and American revolutions. Lets start out by talking about the French Revolution, then move on to the American Revolution. The French Revolution was fought between the years of 1789 and 1799, and violently changed France from a monarchical state to a modern nation in which social power was loosened and power was mostly in the hands of the middle classes. There are …
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…own jurisdictions. By turning to federalism the 55 men at Philadelphia solved what had been the central problem of American political history in the quarter century since the end of the French and Indian War, namely, how governmental power should be allocated. First, the question was between Parliament and the colonial assemblies; later, between Congress under the Articles of Confederation and the state legislatures. The American Revolution reached its culmination when the Constitution was adopted in 1788.