Navigation Acts, Quartering Acts, Stamp Acts, and the hated Intolerable Acts. Are founding fathers also used a democratic form of government, which, in that time frame, was considered radical and totally unheard of in Europe, where the major European powers were almost all total monarchies. In addition to this, the revolutionists founded their own constitution. Now the revolutionists in France used the same idea by using their newly formed National Assembly by passing laws to wipe out many of the abuses of the old feudal system. The National Assembly drew up a new constitution, which made France a constitutional monarchy. Aside from that, the constitution formed a legislative branch with 475 members elected by "active citizens," and it represented mainly the middle class, which was the majority of the population. The king could declare war and peace only with the consent of the legislature. This National Assembly did not last long enough for that. The king did uphold the constitution and some of the revolutionaries revolted against it also. Nevertheless, the National Assembly dissolved on Sept 30, 1791 making it only lasting three years. These two revolutions occurred relatively at same period, but were almost complete mirror reflections of one another. The patriots of the revolution in America did not really even wanted a revolution, but had no choice, which made it peaceful aside from the war. The revolutionists in France seemed almost bloodthirsty and were very quick to kill someone for any injustice. The groups of revolutionists were too radical in that they were not willing to compromise. Compromise makes the difference between a peaceful state and a reign of terror....
