In 1774, King Louis XVI made a decision that could have prevented the French Revolution by breathing new life into the French economy: he appointed Physiocrat Robert Turgot as Controller General of Finance. ... The only function of government according to this doctrine is to protect life, liberty, and property." ...
Several of the delegates were well known and influential people; James Madison (who is considered the father of the constitution), George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and Alexander Hamilton were only a few. ... This was a government based on a charter that said that all men are created equal with an equal right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, but a society which by the nineteenth century was the largest slave holding country in the world (qtd in Ferris 9)". ... They were very vocal and the Southerners began to see them as another threat to their way of life. ... They quick...
