Awatmath.1547 net.general utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!watmath!japlaice Wed Jan 20 13:36:28 1982 Voltaire and freedom of speech (decvax!duke!bcw follow-up) One can not really say that Voltaire's `attitude was pretty close to that of a lot of 18th century Americans who were involved in the American Revolution'. However, one can say that Voltaire's thinking (and ultimately Locke's thinking to a great degree) had a great amount of influence upon Americans such as Ben Franklin. In fact, one can find a lot of the important points in the U.S. Constitution in Voltaire's `Lettres anglaises' and `Zadig'. John A. Plaice @ University of Waterloo ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.