Compare and contrast conceptions of freedom/liberty between the US and France

In both United States and France, there are many conceptions of freedom and related insights that are used in this discussion for comparison purposes. In this discussion, much emphasis on similarities and differences of conceptions of freedom in the two countries is discussed to show how concepts of freedom have evolved in the two countries. Freedom/ liberty entails the process whereby individuals are given some power to control their own lives and do whatever makes them happy. In other words, freedom play a big role in emancipating people from mental chains. The revolution that took place in both United States and France is a perfect example of the fight for freedom. The revolutions in U.S. and France took place almost at the same time, and the two countries share some models despite their different approach to the fight for freedom/liberty (Adrian, pg. 12-13).  

In the United States fight for freedom, the incomers were against the mode of a ruling by their rulers. The colonists believed that the real power belongs to the people but the rulers would act as an extension of the people. However, the incomers who did not get rebellious decided not to kill King George III, the English ruler during the time of the revolution. In France, the colonists also rebelled their ruler, but unlike the U.S. colonists, they chopped off the head of Louis XIV, the king of France at during the time of the revolution. The colonists killed Louis XIV in public for the citizens to witness the beginning of a new dawn in their country. The bottom line is, the people in U.S and France had reached a point of no turning back in the fight for liberty and discrimination (Murphy, pg. 47).