America Leading the World Headlong into the 18th Century

Those dastardly French! What arrogance! In 1789, they tried to destroy the Ancien Régime (read Old Order). The Old Order is an aristocratic, social, and political system that prevailed in Europe between the 14th and 19th centuries. In it, power is held by the monarchy, the clergy, and the aristocracy, and society is divided into three Estates—the nobility, the clergy, and the rest of the people who are powerless. The Ancien Régime retains the privileges of both the nobility and aris...

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