Most Americans are ignorant of not only their own history but world history.
Liberty is not an American invention. Our founding fathers to a person saw themselves first as Englishmen until they declared their independence. America was founded on the ideas found in John Locke’s Two Treatises of Government. Madison’s governmental structure of checks and balances was greatly influenced by Montesquieu, a French philosopher. Voltaire, perhaps the most famous writer of the 18th century, a French philosophe, highly esteemed Britain’s political and intellectual freedoms: freedom of speech and the separation of church and state.
Both America and Canada are the offsprings of individual liberty founded upon the “Rights of Englishmen”: rooted in the Magna Carta and the English Bill of Rights. So if there’s a generalization to be made, America and Canada come from the same stock—born to be free.
Most Americans are ignorant of not only their own history but world history.
Liberty is not an American invention. Our founding fathers to a person saw themselves first as Englishmen until they declared their independence. America was founded on the ideas found in John Locke’s Two Treatises of Government. Madison’s governmental structure of checks and balances was greatly influenced by Montesquieu, a French philosopher. Voltaire, perhaps the most famous writer of the 18th century, a French philosophe, highly esteemed Britain’s political and intellectual freedoms: freedom of speech and the separation of church and state.
Both America and Canada are the offsprings of individual liberty founded upon the “Rights of Englishmen”: rooted in the Magna Carta and the English Bill of Rights. So if there’s a generalization to be made, America and Canada come from the same stock—born to be free.
Bill corn