Nations and Nationalities in Europe

Rule by the people and for the people. This is a common phrase apply by many another(prenominal) today to describe thevariety of democratic political institutions found all everywhere the globe today. piece of music nearly alldemocracies outside of Europe model the beginnings of their form of government to the assume inStates and more specifically to the U.S. Constitution, for democracies within Europe, the beginningsare traced even farther back in eon to titty two different traditions. One of these traditionsbeing the English Constitution to begin with involving the Magna Carta, and the other traditionrevolving rough the French Revolution.In comparing these two as to which has ultimately proved stronger as the base for customary rule andwhy, one can discern that the French rotary motionary tradition has accomplished this for two precedents.The premier reason being due to the fact of it being more recent in historical context. much(prenominal) an importantevent having occurred less than 300 years ago has more relevance in the minds of many politicalthinkers in our modern era than a similar event which occurred nearly 800 years ago. globe tendsto believe that his ideas improve over time and thus the later the idea, the better the idea it is.The second reason for the French tradition being the base for most forms of popular rule today is dueto it rightfully identifying and involving the three classes of the populace the aristocracy, middle-class,and poor, back then as it does today, in the political and economic process of society. While bothtraditions sought to limit the power of the monarch from being absolute over its subjects, it was theFrench revolution which gave a strong voice to those neither rich nor poor.The English tradition onthe other hand, primarily involved the nobility and the monarch, much like a dispute being settledtoday betwixt the millionaires on one side and the billionaires on the other. Today, like in the late18th centur y during the time of the French revolution, in most advanced and developing democraticsocieties, the vast majority of the citizenry fall in the middle.Thus, it is their political interests and perspectives which influence political discussion and change, just as it didnearly 300 years ago.