American Revolution Global Impacts Touch More Lives Day by Day.

When it came to the American Revolution, global impacts were not foremost on the founders minds.

Tactical issues, logistics, even just basic survival seemed to eat up all the time of the members of the revolution and the young government.

Broke and shunned by many established nations as a pack of rabble-rousers up to no good, it was years before America got around to courting international opinion although they were consistently begging for cash.

Franklin, acting as the first diplomat, showed the world that there was more to the young country than militias marching out of the woods and attacking the king's men.

There was, in fact, a newly created constitutional republic that was redefining the concept of citizen's rights, allowing the principles of self-government to flourish and prosperity to take hold.

Intrigued, the citizen's of other nations became inspired, and the American Revolution global impacts started to blossom.

There was no organized campaign to spread the flame of democracy until centuries later--and even then many would argue that the US still applies it's principles pragmatically and inconsistently abroad.

Yet the principles of self-government, and of the rights of the governed to dictate to the government that which was right, appropriate and desired, were American Revolution global impacts that even the most isolationistic of the founders would have been happy to see.

Further, as threats rose up, people were increasingly framing the issues in terms of issues of government and citizen's rights.

HOW WILL THE WORLD CHOOSE?

ADDITIONAL OUTCOMES

Thus as a legacy of the American Revolution, global impacts on debate, diplomacy, and statecraft continue to grow. Countries that attempt to restrict the access of the citizenry to American ideals are finding that the principles of America slip in somehow and spread like wildfire. Tyrants everywhere are fearing overthrow by democratic peoples.

Another of the American Revolution global impacts was the stability of the country. Due to the sound form of government enjoyed by Americans, the country has been in the unique position of being able to reach out to the world and to the lands of the unjust and do what is necessary to make things right.

WHERE NEXT FOR IDEALS?

As the American Revolution global impacts continue to become the desired norms of a free world, it is necessary to ask where next? The philosophies of the founders have already impacted Europe, the Latin American nations, African countries and the former USSR. Will the idea of democracy spread to Asia anytime soon?

Only time will tell. Yet what time has already told is that the founders were on to something. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are ideals that are desired by people everywhere, and they are certainly worth fighting for in a revolution.