French Rev SAQ (from 2021 FRQs)

“The revolutionary period of England may be said to have lasted nearly 50 years, if we reckon from the beginning of the civil wars under Charles I to the accession of William III in 1688. The efforts of these 50 years had no other real and permanent object than the establishment of the current constitution, which is the finest monument of justice and moral greatness existing in Europe. The same movement in the minds of men that brought about the revolution in England was the cause of that of France in 1789. Both belong to a new era in the progress of social order—the establishment of representative government—a point toward which humanity is directing itself.”