Three Declarations, Three Revolutions
Summer 2026 Essays Three Declarations, Three Revolutions Natural right and American exceptionalism. by Charles R. Americans’ impending commemoration of the 250th anniversary of our Revolution—and our Declaration of Independence—invites at least a brief comparison with these other revolutions’ declarations, followed by a more sustained interpretation of our own illuminated by its differences with them. Hence “the English Bill of Rights,” which helped to complete or “settle” the Glorious Revolution, the final act of the English Revolution that had begun in Civil War almost 50 years before.
- ▪Summer 2026 Essays Three Declarations, Three Revolutions Natural right and American exceptionalism. by Charles R.
- ▪Americans’ impending commemoration of the 250th anniversary of our Revolution—and our Declaration of Independence—invites at least a brief comparison with these other revolutions’ declarations, followed by a more sustained interpretation of
- ▪Hence “the English Bill of Rights,” which helped to complete or “settle” the Glorious Revolution, the final act of the English Revolution that had begun in Civil War almost 50 years before.
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Summer 2026 Essays Three Declarations, Three Revolutions Natural right and American exceptionalism. by Charles R. Kesler Books Reviewed Three Beginnings: Revolution, Rights, and the Liberal State: Comparative Perspectives on the English, American, and French Revolutions Buy Email Share Print Download Modern democratic politics began with three great revolutions, with the English, American, and French Revolution each marked, though in very different ways, by a memorable public Declaration justifying and explaining the political changes.
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