<P> After the Revolution, genuinely democratic politics became possible in the former colonies . The rights of the people were incorporated into state constitutions . Concepts of liberty, individual rights, equality among men and hostility toward corruption became incorporated as core values of liberal republicanism . The greatest challenge to the old order in Europe was the challenge to inherited political power and the democratic idea that government rests on the consent of the governed . The example of the first successful revolution against a European empire, and the first successful establishment of a republican form of democratically elected government, provided a model for many other colonial peoples who realized that they too could break away and become self - governing nations with directly elected representative government . </P> <P> The Dutch Republic, also at war with Britain, was the next country to sign a treaty with the United States, on October 8, 1782 . On April 3, 1783, Ambassador Extraordinary Gustaf Philip Creutz, representing King Gustav III of Sweden, and Benjamin Franklin, signed a Treaty of Amity and Commerce with the U.S. </P> <P> The American Revolution was the first wave of the Atlantic Revolutions: the French Revolution, the Haitian Revolution, and the Latin American wars of independence . Aftershocks reached Ireland in the Irish Rebellion of 1798, in the Polish--Lithuanian Commonwealth, and in the Netherlands . </P> <P> The Revolution had a strong, immediate influence in Great Britain, Ireland, the Netherlands, and France . Many British and Irish Whigs spoke in favor of the American cause . In Ireland, there was a profound impact; the Protestants who controlled Ireland were demanding more and more self - rule . Under the leadership of Henry Grattan, the so - called "Patriots" forced the reversal of mercantilist prohibitions against trade with other British colonies . The King and his cabinet in London could not risk another rebellion on the American model, and made a series of concessions to the Patriot faction in Dublin . Armed Protestant volunteer units were set up to protect against an invasion from France . As in America, so too in Ireland the King no longer had a monopoly of lethal force . </P>

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