How America’s one-goal revolution contrasts with later collectivist revolutions, including France’s.

America’s Revolution was different. Our Founders fought for one goal—individual liberty—and designed a Constitution that divides power to protect it. In this video, Clifford Ribner explains why revolutions that chase multiple, competing goals (like imposed “equality of outcomes”) end up sacrificing liberty.

What you’ll hear in this video

• The single purpose behind the American Revolution: individual liberty.

• Why collectivist projects—historic and modern—conflict with liberty when enforced from above.

• Declaration of Independence and John Locke: natural rights and the pursuit of happiness.

• Madison, Federalist No. 47: why combining legislative, executive, and judicial power is “the very definition of tyranny.”

• How the rhetoric of equality of outcomes differs from equality of opportunity.

• Context on Rousseau’s “general will” (an influence on later French revolutionaries) versus the American approach to limited government.

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