Make them your associates or make them disappear! Make friends and enemies of different rival factions vying for power. Run your own courtroom – question witnesses, analyze clues and evidence, read reports, and pass sentences.
Confront your judgments with your family – your loved ones may often disa-gree with your decisions. Preside dozen of unique and morally ambiguous court cases. Experience the oppressive atmosphere of the French Revolution as you know it from classic novels of Alexandre Dumas and Joseph Conrad. Shape history and decide who will live and who will die. Addressed chiefly to players who enjoy to settle moral dilemmas, make complex personal choices, and immerse themselves in the world of sophisticated political intrigue. keep that in mind each time when passing sentence in the courtroom, while assigning tasks to your agents, giving speeches, and weaving political intrigue behind the scenes. The power over human life and death is a heavy burden, responsibility and strength that can affect the fate of the revolution. The Revolution will put you in morally ambiguous situations in which there are no obvious solutions, and the decisions you made are never unambiguous. At the end of a day you will also confront your decisions with your family and very often they will see it differently. As a judge of the Revolutionary Tribunal, you will have to trudge through this setting passing sentences, playing a dangerous political game, and doing everything in your power to not to be guillotined as an enemy of revolution. The Revolution is a unique game with a singular art style set in the blood-soaked and paranoid world of the French Revolution, where often you could not tell a friend from an enemy. Please subscribe to We the Peopleand L ive at the National Constitution Center on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast app.We. Questions or comments about the show? Email us at Ĭontinue today’s conversation on Facebook and Twitter using up to receive Constitution Weekly, our email roundup of constitutional news and debate, at bit.ly/constitutionweekly. Rosemarie Zagarri, A Woman's Dilemma: Mercy Otis Warren and the American Revolution.Nancy Rubin Stuart, The Muse of the Revolution: The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and the Founding of a Nation.Rosen is also professor of law at The George Washington University Law School and a contributing editor of The Atlantic.
Jeffrey Rosenis the president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization devoted to educating the public about the U.S. Her latest book is Revolutionary Backlash: Women and Politics in the Early American Republic. She is the author of A Woman's Dilemma: Mercy Otis Warren and the American Revolution which is part of the American Biographical History Series. Rosemarie Zagarri is University Professor at George Mason University where she specializes in early American history. Her next book Poor Richard’s Women: Deborah Read Franklin and the Other Women Behind the Founding Father will be published in February 2022. She is the author of The Muse of the Revolution: The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and the Founding of a Nation. Nancy Rubin Stuartis an author who specializes in women and social history.
This transcript may not be in its final form, accuracy may vary, and it may be updated or revised in the future. Research was provided by Alexandra "Mac" Taylor, Amy Lu, Olivia Gross, and Lana Ulrich. This episode was produced by Jackie McDermott and engineered by David Stotz. Host Jeffrey Rosen was joined by two biographers of Warren, Nancy Rubin Stuart, author of The Muse of the Revolution: The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and the Founding of a Nation, and Rosemarie Zagarri, author of A Woman's Dilemma: Mercy Otis Warren and the American Revolution. A poet, playwright, and pamphleteer-Warren’s ideas influenced John, Abigail, and Samuel Adams as well as Alexander Hamilton and others, and even helped shape the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. This week’s episode profiles Mercy Otis Warren-a trailblazing woman who was one of the leading thinkers of America’s Revolutionary and Founding period.