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The will of the people is no farse. Look at prohibition in the US as one example. There are others, but it's not our central topic here, so I won't really digress too much, other than to note that a certain % of people are not "for" one side or the other -- they simply wait to see who the winner is. Some nations do this as well (well, most perhaps). I note that for all the great help the French provided in the American Revolution, it only really came in any substantial form after a couple of years of the colonists winning battles on their own accord, and really only when it looked like the colonists were fairly sure to win. Ben Franklin spent a good two years in Paris negotiating for more help, and only getting a trickle here and a trickle there, before France really joined the effor in earnest. I'm not trying to paint France in a bad light here -- I'm just trying to state history accurately.
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