Please read the following documents carefully and share the similarities and differences. Describe how one affects the other in relationship to the evolution of democratic principles in Western Civilization. For example, how did the Glorious Revolution of 1688 impact the American Revolution, and the American Revolutionary experience impact the French Revolution?
The Glorious Revolution was the political and governmental upheaval that shook England in 1688. The Glorious Revolution of 1688, swift, bloodless, and one of the mildest, most benignant revolutions in history, began in the spring of 1688 with several conspiracies against James II by his political enemies and various military officers, and became irresistible by Nov. 5, when the Prince of Orange�s invasion fleet appeared off the coast of Devonshire in western England and began landing an army in which history records as the last successful invasion of England. The Glorious Revolution ended three months later on Feb. 13, 1689, when William and Mary were officially proclaimed the new monarchs in London by a convention specially assembled in lieu of a Parliament. By then the deposed James II was living in exile in France, a guest of French King Louis XIV. They adopted many of the ideas from the English, like cruel and unusual punishment
It became necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which god and the laws of nature and of nature�s god entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. This document the Declaration of Independence entitles each person their own rights and privileges. It allows people to live happily knowing that the government has to provide them with what they need, and if not then we have the right to rebel. Our document is like our version on the French document.