CHAPTER XXXVII. THE NEW DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICS OF AMERICA

AND FRANCE

§ 1. Inconveniences of the Great Power system 278

§ 2. The thirteen colonies before their revolt 280

§ 3. Civil war is forced upon the colonies 286

§ 4. The War of Independence 291

§ 5. The constitution of the United States 294

§ 6. Primitive features of the United States constitution 301

§ 7. Revolutionary ideas in France 307

§ 8. The Revolution of the year 1789 311

§ 9. The French “crowned republic” of ’89-’91 313

§ 10. The Revolution of the Jacobins 321

§ 11. The Jacobin republic, 1792-4 331

§ 12. The Directory 337

§ 13. The pause in reconstruction and the dawn of modern Socialism 339