Plain wrong. The only things perpetrated under those banners are putches and coups. The historical end result of ideas like these has always, without exception, been widespread slaughter. Whether in France, Soviet Russia or Red China. The American revolution was a revolution -- in more than name -- precisely because it did not uphold these "ideals" but, on the complete contrary, sought to enshrine in constitutional form, by rule of law, their polar opposite: The protection of private property from the arbitrary confiscations and expropriations of the government in general, and the British Crown in particular.Peter wrote:There has never been a revolution that has not been centered on distributing the wealth horded by the few to the oppressed masses.
Present to me one document, written by one Founding Father, that advocates these thoughts, and I shall stand corrected. No central document from the entire collected intellectual heritage of the thirteen colonies, or the early, pre-Mexican war, American republic -- The Federalist Papers, The Declaration of Independence, The Bill of Rights, the writings of Paine and Jefferson -- advocates this nonsense.
