A fascinating book called Sister Revolutions: French Lightning and American Light by Dr. Susan Dunn provides an interesting comparison of the American and French Revolutions. According to Dunn, one of the factors that allowed the American revolutionaries’ to successfully write a constitution and form a working government was the very strict guidelines the 55 delegates at the Constitutional Convention placed on what language was appropriate when addressing … Continue reading The Importance of Language and How We Speak to Each Other