The American Declaration of Independence, together with the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, can be considered as the prototype of the foundation documents of all modern democracies. It was based on the assumption that man has a God-given rational nature guiding his free will as self-ruling. So, it placed reason before will.The French Revolution, on the other hand, in spite of its avowed cult of reason by "Liberty, Equality and Fraternity", in fact disavowed reason and made the will of the people majority rule the source of civil power. Thus will was placed before reason.Which of the two Revolutions is the genuine democratic one? The elucidation of this issue, so vital for our time, is the purpose of this paper. The analysis undertaken, with a previous clarification of terms is both philosophical and historical as only the latter can provide the basis for a philosophical reflection
During the American Revolution, most of the slaves could not serve in the army, free blacks could but slaves could not. Some historians say that the American Revolution reinforced the idea of a racial identity based on skin color.
Because of that some slaves and blacks decided to fight for the British, because they offered them freedom for joining their cause, a thing that the Americans did not offer them.
Of the half a million slaves that were in the American colonies during the American Revolution, 20 thousand joined the British cause. Many slaves that belonged to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, and others fled to the British side.
The main result was that this led to the largest slave uprising and the greatest emancipation until the Civil War. Some of those ex-slaves emigrated to Sierra Leone, Canada, and Britain.
The archipelago<span> consists of 6,852 islands ("island" defined as land more than 100 m in circumference), of which 430 are inhabited. The four main islands, from north to south, are Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu; Honshu is the largest and referred to as the </span>Japanese<span> mainland.</span>
