I'm looking at the fundamental issue of how your country works and what its underlying philosophy is:
-shift of governance by the people for the people (French concept),
-how this is enshrined in a constitution (French concept)
-with inalienable rights to all citizens (French concept),
-of a republic (French concept)
-led by a President (French concept),
-and how this was established and is supportable by armed revolution (French initiative - one could say Corsican but no-one remembers them).
The British don't have a written constitution; its governance by a representative democracy derived from the power of the royal family and not the people; it is not a republic; armed revolt is treason even against a tyrannous government. This is shared by all British Commonwealth countries (except those which are now republics). You share with the English a language and a system of law, but the fundamental philosophy comes from France.
I'm certain that its historical - the timing to the French Revolution is too close: Robiespierre and Voltaire were too influential at the time to be ignored.
