quite true for the monarchies, but they was this intense intellectual
effort from the European elites, whose ideas eventually led to the
writing of the constitution. The fact that there were absolut monarchies
in Europe didn't prevent those ideas to emerge. Of course there were
many actors in-between, but they just passed the stuff along.

Alan Minyard wrote:
On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 21:42:31 +0200, guy wastiaux
wrote:


just wanted to add that WWI lasted just 4 years It's quite enough
already.
Apart from that, nice article
Hey Al Minyard : you seem to forget it was mostly French and European
philosophists who made it possible to write the US constitution,
through their ideas. You OWE to Europe your very existence as a
democracy. And don't pretend otherwise.


The Black Monk wrote:

The French

BM


What rubbish. The Europeans were still absolute monarchies at the
time. The European democracies owe their existence to the US.

Al Minyard


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