The Tale of Two Revolutions and Two Constitutions

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by Gordon Lloyd / 0 Comments

Filed Under: Alexis de Tocqueville, American Citizenship, American Founding, Constitutional Morality, Democratic Perfectionism, Monty Python, Redistribution

The closing of the XXX Olympic Games, in both French and English, reminds me of Charles Dickens who in the nineteenth century wrote famously about the Tale of Two Cities—Paris and London–separated by a channel of water.  Paris was experiencing …