The American founding fathers realized that their first attempt at government, the Articles of Confederation was not effective, so they decided to try again and create the Constitution and a Bill of Rights to ensure that “the right of the people [are] secure in their persons, houses...shall not be violated” (Bill of Rights). This protected the citizens’ freedom against tyranny and government, as the government under this system was unable to take away their rights. France, contrastingly, decided to take a different route in their governmental reconstruction. They decided that the society needed protection from the bad individuals, as they were fighting for freedom from a couple bad individuals. They ensured this with their version of the Bill of Rights called the Declaration of the RIghts of Man and Citizens of 1789. That was drastically different from America and it proved to be so when America was successful and France unfortunately was
The American founding fathers realized that their first attempt at government, the Articles of Confederation was not effective, so they decided to try again and create the Constitution and a Bill of Rights to ensure that “the right of the people [are] secure in their persons, houses...shall not be violated” (Bill of Rights). This protected the citizens’ freedom against tyranny and government, as the government under this system was unable to take away their rights. France, contrastingly, decided to take a different route in their governmental reconstruction. They decided that the society needed protection from the bad individuals, as they were fighting for freedom from a couple bad individuals. They ensured this with their version of the Bill of Rights called the Declaration of the RIghts of Man and Citizens of 1789. That was drastically different from America and it proved to be so when America was successful and France unfortunately was