In order for the world to be free, the Truman Administration suggested that Indochina no longer be communist. America getting involved into Indochina ran into its tradition of anticolonialism however, it ignored this somewhat to support France. After the French army won, America then wanted Indochina’s independence. America came up with “Operation Eggshell” in which France was urged to give Indochina independence while continuing the anticommunist war. By 1952, the National Security Council formalized the Domino Theory by describing a military attack on Indochina as being dangerous.
The American Revolution did not satisfy the colonial goals for civil, political, social, and economic rights; however the Constitution did. All the American Revolution did was drive the British out of America. With the British gone the Americans had the ability to strive for civil, political, social, and economic rights, but the Articles of Confederation became an obstacle in their path to their rightful goals. During the American Revolution the American people wrote a lot about what they wanted to accomplish and attain. In Document A, the Declaration of the Causes and Necessities of Taking Up Arms, it is written that the American people feel they have been wronged by England because their rights are restricted and wish for these basic rights to happiness and such.
Compare and Contrast American and French Post-Revolutionary Governments Inspired by the Enlightenment ideas of the 17th century concerning the nature of man, France and the British colonies of North America both strove to achieve a democratic form of government by carrying out revolutions. They took up arms against the established system in hopes of creating this new style of administration that the previous century had championed. Both North America and France were ruled by absolute monarchies at the time, and the concepts of natural equality, self-government by the people, and inalienable rights that the philosophes of the Enlightenment had proposed were extremely appealing to the harshly taxed lower class. But only one country, however, was able to successfully complete its revolution and implement their sought after democratic rule. The North American colonies were able to achieve their goal of forming a democracy while the French were not due to the differences in their pre-revolutionary political systems and the nature of the respective revolutions themselves.
At the end of the American Revolution the Articles of Confederation established an Anti-Federalist paradise in the United States. A weak league of friendship was formed between each state, angering Federalists who sought a stronger central government and causing political, economic and social problems. Shay’s Rebellion, inability to collect taxes and the worthless state currency were all problems that lead to the formation of a new constitution. After becoming free from the tyrannical rule of the British crown the Anti-Federalists were hesitant to establish a strong central government. This set into motion the forming of the Articles of Confederation which created a weak bond between states and a congress with essentially no power to put any law into motion.
Compare and Contrast the Governmental Perspectives of Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and Woodrow Wilson: The Differences and Similarities Angel Green PA 330: Public Administration March 09, 2014 Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Woodrow Wilson created an American constitutional government to limit the government’s power. The four fundamentally different intellectual traditions are Hamiltonian; where he seeks a government that is effective and promotes a top down government that favors a strong executive. Jeffersonian; where the tradition celebrates America’s agrarian roots, which promotes a bottom up government and requests a weak executive. Madisonian; where the tradition attempts to balance political power amongst opposing forces, and Wilsonian; prefers to focus on administrative power in hierarchically organized organizations. The result is the profound tension in a uniquely American form of Public Administration (Kettl 2002, 29).
Unlike the British, the French are friendly with the Native American Indian tribes living in America, and the French pay them for land and treat them fairly, while the British take Indian lands and don’t treat them fairly, so the French are prepared to fight the British over land. The French and Indians join forces to fight the British. Among the many attempts to unite the colonies, Benjamin Franklin wants to unite the colonies against France, this plan is called the Albany Plan of union – to unite all of the colonies. Parliament rejects this plan, and war breaks out in 1754 between the French and Indians and the British. They are fighting over power and land in the Ohio Valley.
Democracy is essentially the idea of rule by the people, for the people and of the people and therefore governing in the public interest; it would be hard to see many liberals going against the idea of democracy itself, whilst criticisms of it are also not rare. Firstly, one can see that the origins of Liberalism came from the rationalism of the Enlightenment and emergence of market capitalism leading to the events which marked liberal history; the American and French revolutions. The Americans were seeking refuge from the British Crown and the French from undemocratic institutions. Freedom was the first goal of both countries and mainly focused on freedom from oppression and arbitrary rule. The idea of freedom and pursuing democracy is especially pushed within classical liberalism and this can be seen through thinkers such as John Locke who envisioned individuals as being free and equal, having given consent to the government and therefore authority deriving from them not the people above.
# 1– The American vs. French Revolution The leaders of both the American and French Revolutions declared that their goal was to create a new political system based on the principles of liberty and equality. However, the interpretation of those ideas by the American Founding Fathers turned out to be distinctly different from that of the French revolutionaries. How did those different interpretations of the concepts of liberty and equality affect the outcomes and the legacies of both revolutions? Analyze, compare, and contrast “Revolutionary movements require some unifying body of ideas, a common vocabulary of hope and protest, something, in short, like a common ‘revolutionary psychology’.” This quote by George Rude’, a French Revolution historian, applies to both the French and American revolutions from the 18th century. Both wars have similar qualities, as they were focused around liberty and equality.
France’s first attempt at international assistance was from the world’s most powerful nation, the United States. Their goal was to stress France’s dedication to stopping the spread of communism. A major factor in the United States’ decision to get more involved in Vietnam was the 1947 Truman Doctrine. The Truman Doctrine was the US pledge to “aid foreigners actively fighting communist encroachment”. France’s presentation of their war as one that opposed communism worked as United States decided it could no longer stay neutral.
The second reason why politics was the cause of the civil war, Politicians had long recognized that group conflict was endemic to American society and that the vitality of individual parties depended on the intensity of their competition with opposing parties. Thomas Jefferson had perceived in 1798 that “in every free and deliberating society, there must, from the nature of man, be opposite parties, and violent dissensions and discords.” “Seeing that we must have somebody to quarrel with,” He wrote John Taylor, “I had rather keep our New England associates for that purpose, than to see our bickering transferred to others.” They deplored the lack of internal discipline and cohesion in the Jeffersonian Republican party once the federalists disappeared, and they moved quickly to remedy