The Age of the Democratic Revolution. A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800

198 Chapter IX to be very defective, since it left the people with no initiative to meet, to punish officials, or to effect cons ...

Europe and the American Revolution 199 dated the American Revolution, to which it was collaterally rather than lineally related. ...

200 Chapter IX In Germany there was little incentive to detailed examination of American gov- ernment. Some Germans, following t ...

Europe and the American Revolution 201 into the French language through translation of the American state constitutions. For the ...

202 Chapter IX lement of Paris. These events are related in a later chapter. They were a continua- tion of that conflict between ...

Europe and the American Revolution 203 the government of the United States, in the form of four letters addressed to Adams. Mabl ...

204 Chapter IX dérations sur l ’ordre de Cincinnatus. With it he included a translation of Price’s re- flections on the American ...

Europe and the American Revolution 205 without knowing anything of them, and have echoed and re- echoed each other’s visionary l ...

206 Chapter IX citizens to excite clamors and uneasiness” against the executive, which is the es- sence of government.^51 These ...

Europe and the American Revolution 207 one assembly, a few individuals would appropriate it for themselves. It was from faulty a ...

208 Chapter IX apparent doctrine, of the necessity for three “orders.” Many of the French with whom Jefferson mixed were partisa ...

Europe and the American Revolution 209 new constitution for his own state. Nor did it suit their requirements to find Jef- ferso ...

210 Chapter IX cific and extended. This declaration must forbid hereditary distinctions, make all offices elective, prohibit reg ...

Europe and the American Revolution 211 John Stevens was persuaded that John Adams was trying to foist aristocracy upon the Unite ...

212 Chapter IX Sieyès added a note on it in the third edition of his famous tract on the Third Es- tate. He hailed it as a usefu ...

Europe and the American Revolution 213 ideas already familiar in Europe made such ideas seem more truly universal, and confirmed ...

CHAPTER X TWO PARLIAMENTS ESCAPE REFORM Parliamentary reform, I am still sure, must sooner or later be carried in both coun- tri ...

Two Parliaments Escape Reform 215 the subjects of government: the Maupeou administration overcame the parlements in France, Gust ...

216 Chapter X The Arming of Ireland: “Grattan’s Parliament” In both islands, during the later years of the American war, an orga ...

Two Parliaments Escape Reform 217 The Irish Parliament, as already explained, represented the Anglican or Anglo- Irish community ...