View Poll Results: Biggest Impact on Modern Liberalism

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  • 1776

    4 10.81%

  • 1789

    16 43.24%

  • 1848

    10 27.03%

  • I'm English and don't believe in writing anything down

    3 8.11%

  • Gah

    4 10.81%
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Thread: More Important to Modern Western Liberalism:1776, 1789, 1848

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  1. 11-23-2009, 22:31 #11
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    Default Re: More Important to Modern Western Liberalism:1776, 1789, 1848

    Why isn't 1787 on this list? IMHO, America's most important contribution is the US Constitution, not the Declaration of Independence. Any schmuck with a pitchfork can get uppity with their current rulers, but it takes something special to create an entirely new system of government from scratch, particularly one which has survived essentially intact for 230+ years. The French may have generated a lot of the ideas, but they utterly failed in the implementation. If you have to re-write your Constitution five times, you didn't do a very good job of it.
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