This is because the American Revolution had influenced the French Revolution. It is believed that the French Revolution will have an even greater impact on Europe. Brad Mackey in his article “American Revolutionary Influences on the French Revolution” states: “…the influence of the American Revolution on the French Revolution must include the recognition that the French first interpreted the ideological successes of the American Revolution…”. Mackey says this to explain how the French may have used America as an example to identify their own problems. One way the American Revolution influenced the French Revolution as it showed the Americas problem with the king of England and taxation was similar to the kings in France and the taxes of the French people. Mackey states: “the conflict between the American people and the king of England over taxation and American representation in the British parliament was, to the French, similar to the conflict over taxation between the kings of France and the French people who had been represented in the judiciary from hereditary French parliaments dominated by nobles”. Perhaps the greatest influence on the French Revolution compared to the American Revolution was their similarity to the monarchies that were in total control of them. In his article, Richard Mackey writes: “These conflicts in France had as their primary source the disagreement between the monarchical government, which claimed absolute power, and the parliamentary judicial system which had been, since 1615, the only institution that had had the right to question this absolutism”. These are all examples of how the French used the American model in their revolution and also how the American Revolution impacted the French.