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Swap the characters and outcomes of the French and American Revolutions.

For example France has a mostly peaceful transition to a moderate federal republic, has a constitution that remains largely unchanged to the modern day and despite being officially secular religion still plays a significant part in its culture and politics.

The USA, on the other hand, has violent purges and terrors, is heavily centralised, goes through multiple republican and monarchist governments, frequently gets into fights with all of its neighbours and regards staunch secularism as a core national value.
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