Courtesy of smokeboater in http://smokeboater.livejournal.com/152874.html#comments referring to "Former Obama Student: Obama's Ignorance of Constitution Embarrassing," in the Breitbart News at Read more... )

Did the French not believe in the natural rights of man? What is it you see as the difference in their revolution that caused it to fail so spectacularly?Lack of experience with self-government. The French state, since their formation out of the barbarian Frank polity by Charles I (Clovis), had only known one of two conditions: absolute monarchy ( Read more... )