The Glorious, American, and French revolutions have always been attributed with giving their respective citizens the rights and freedoms they thought they deserved. However, these revolutions did significantly more than winning rights and freedoms. The three major revolutions had an enduring impact that changed people’s views on political expectations and self-government worldwide.

The Glorious, American, and French revolutions had common precursors as well as common results. In England, the king was taxing the people without the consent of Parliament. In France and in America, the king was taxing the citizens, but they had no representatives in their government to defend themselves. In all three revolutions, ‘taxation without representation’ precluded the revolution, marking it as a cause that results in revolution. Even if the kings/rulers of these countries tried to pacify the people, it would still strike number one for them. In the Glorious, American, and French revolutions, the people wanted more individual rights. Their rights were few and insecure, crippled by the power of the monarch. Enlightenment ideas sparked peoples’ desires for more rights and liberties. Finally, the absolute, monarchal power and rule of the king was a major cause of the revolutions. The kings of England and France were always overspending, and, in general, doing as they pleased with no care for the people.

The people wanted a representational government, and so each and every offense the king committed, the people were one step closer to revolting. Therefore, the leading causes of the revolutions were taxation without representation, the lack of rights, and the absolute rule of the monarch. The three revolutions, having some of the same causes, concluded with many of the same results as well. The Glorious revolution gave the people a Bill of Rights, increased the power of Parliament, and established a constitutional monarchy. The American revolution resulted in a federal republic, a Bill of Rights, and gave the people independence from England. In France, the revolution resulted with the Declaration of the Rights of Man, a constitutional monarchy, and a national assembly. All three revolutions resulted in individual rights, a limitation of the monarch, and a representational form of government where the people had a say in how they were taxed and governed. These similarities were crucial to the lasting effect of the revolutions.

Although the three revolutions had many similarities, they had their differences as well. The Glorious revolution was different than the American and French revolutions because it was a bloodless revolution. The revolution itself was very quick, although its ideas had been developed over a long period of time. This differs greatly from the American and French revolutions, which were extremely bloody, and lasted around ten years each. Although bloody, they served to show the importance of these ideas. Another difference was that each nation resulted with a different type of government.

The French and Glorious Revolutions ended up with a constitutional monarchy, while the American Revolution ended up with a weak central government under the federal system because they feared the power of a strong central government and would only be recreating what they had been fighting against. Another important difference between the American and French Revolutions is that American people ended up being able to supply themselves with food, and had less polarization of wealth. However, even under their new government, many people in France still had very little to eat, and there was still a polarization of wealth, all of which eventually led to anarchy and a dictatorship in France. The French Revolution differed from the other revolutions because it came from a lack of people’s more primitive needs, such as food. In general, the other two revolutions were milder, giving them less of the enduring effect France had.

The Glorious, American, and French Revolutions had an enduring impact on the world that changed people’s views on political expectations and individual liberties. The ideas that had the most enduring and drastic effect on the world were the ideas shared by all three revolutions. These ideas include no taxation without representation, limitation of monarchs, more rights and individual liberties, and other Enlightenment ideas. Together, the three major revolutions called out to the world and said that it is indeed possible to overthrow old, monarchal rule, and replace that rule with a representational form of government.

The world was influenced by these revolutions in the same way that people in the revolutions where influenced by Enlightenment ideas, and other revolutionists. Spurred and influenced by these revolutions, people have come to expect more from their government and expect more individual liberties. Many countries have reformed their governments, turning them into republics and constitutional monarchies. Now, there are only a handful of monarchies in the world. By spurring change in governments across the globe, the revolutions have also changed the lives of the inhabitants of those nations, providing them with more rights, and better representation within their government.

The Glorious, American, and French Revolutions had an enduring impact on the world that, together, changed people’s views on political expectations and individual liberties. The revolutions came to the same conclusion, suggesting individual rights, a limitation of the monarch, and a representational form of government are all good. Although some revolutions were very bloody, their bloodiness served to show the importance of the ideas they were fighting for. Because of these revolutions’ enduring effects on the world, history may not be doomed to repeat itself.