The Validity of American Ideals
The Validity of American Ideals
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The sinister influence in Europe for AMERICAN IDEALS 147 thirty-five years after Napoleon was Metter- nich of Austria, and he looked at the govern- ment of England as one to be avoided by all the monarchs of Europe. Frederick Wil- liam III of Prussia followed in the wake of Austria. His people wanted a constitution, and they were promised it again and again. The people of southern Germany wanted constitutions, and they got them — Bavaria and Baden in 1818, Wurtemburg in 1819, Hesse-Darmstadt in... 1819. Saxony gained a constitution so hberal that it became almost a "red kingdom, " until Prussia forced Sax- ons to adopt a constitution of the Prussian sort. But Prussia stood like Gibraltar against constitutional government. When Frederick William III died and his son, the affable Frederick William IV, came to the throne, he refused to give a constitution, uttering words which sound strangely like some recently spoken, "Never will I let a sheet of written paper come like a second Providence between our Lord God in heaven and the land, to govern us by its paragraphs.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The sinister influence in Europe for AMERICAN IDEALS 147 thirty-five years after Napoleon was Metter- nich of Austria, and he looked at the govern- ment of England as one to be avoided by all the monarchs of Europe. Frederick Wil- liam III of Prussia followed in the wake of Austria. His people wanted a constitution, and they were promised it again and again. The people of southern Germany wanted constitutions, and they got them — Bavaria and Baden in 1818, Wurtemburg in 1819, Hesse-Darmstadt in... 1819. Saxony gained a constitution so hberal that it became almost a "red kingdom, " until Prussia forced Sax- ons to adopt a constitution of the Prussian sort. But Prussia stood like Gibraltar against constitutional government. When Frederick William III died and his son, the affable Frederick William IV, came to the throne, he refused to give a constitution, uttering words which sound strangely like some recently spoken, "Never will I let a sheet of written paper come like a second Providence between our Lord God in heaven and the land, to govern us by its paragraphs.
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