The analysis of the post-revolutionary governments of America and France will demonstrate that the French Revolution was much more revolutionary than the American one, due to the radical change that took place, the type of government implemented later, as well as the Napoleonic Code carried out by Napoleon Bonaparte. For starters, the French Revolution brought about radical change in a major way, both traits that the American Revolution lacked. A revolution is defined as a radical and pervasive change in society and social structure, which usually occurs with violence. The American Revolution does not appear to resemble the revolutions of other nations, in which people were killed and property was destroyed. They rebelled relatively peacefully and did not kill or eat each other. (Wood, 3) The French Revolution saw a period in which all people deemed "enemies of the state" were arbitrarily arrested and at least 17,000 were officially executed. (“The French Revolution,” 20). The American Revolution had no mass executions; there was a minimal amount of deaths...