On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 15:21:38 +1100, john pitman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN surprised to hear of French influence  in both
> constitutions.....but have no eveidence of any.

By 1787 the United States of America was having far more effect on 
French domestic politics than the reverse, albeit not as a matter of 
deliberate policy.

JBB
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