Winds of Change over Democracy

Our history books don’t mention it, and no one celebrates it. This is a mistake. On this day, the representatives of the French nation, the nobles, the clergy, and the third state, summoned to Versailles by Louis XVI, decided on the character of the regime to govern France. Like the United States, the principle of a constitution is settled, but the constitution itself cannot create a democracy. A democracy can only be true if voters can decide between different policies. How do they cho...