10.2. Students compare and contrast the Glorious Revolution of England, the American Revolution, and the French Revolution and their enduring effects on the worldwide political expectations for self-government and individual liberty, in terms of:
1. the major ideas of philosophers and their effect on the democratic revolutions in England, the United States, France, and Latin America (e.g. biographies of John Locke, Charles-Louis Montesquieu, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Simon Bolivar, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison)
2. the principles of the Magna Carta, the English Bill of Rights (1689), the American Declaration of Independence (1776), the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen (1789), and the U.S. Bill of Rights (1791)
3. the unique character of the American Revolution, its spread to other parts of the world, and its continuing significance to other nations
4. how the ideology of the French Revolution led France to develop from constitutional monarchy to democratic despotism to the Napoleonic empire
5. how nationalism spread across Europe with Napoleon, was repressed for a generation under the Congress of Vienna and Concert of Europe until the Revolutions  of 1948

A Central Question: Why has it been so hard to establish and maintain lasting democratic governments?

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