Liberty Vs Statue Of Liberty

Is there anything more typical of New York City than the Statue of Liberty? Like so many things in life, the monument looks bigger than it is from far away, an estimable gatekeeper to the city that never sleeps. People of France gave the Statue of Liberty to the People of United States as a gift and sign of friendship between the two nations. This is what we know about the statue of liberty but did the people of France really give that gift to the people of the U.S.A? That’s what we will try to figure out. The statue, which was dedicated in 1886, is maintained by the National Park Service, they makes the claim many of us learned in school: "The Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World was a gift of friendship from the people of France to the
Haven't we been conditioned to hear “the people” and understand “the State” instead? And didn't this so called gift to "the people of the United States" end up in the hands of the U.S. government? There always was a national government on both the giving and receiving ends.But it was a private project. The architect was not a fan of the American people, nor was he particularly devoted to the idea of liberty. His first pitch for a giant, torch-bearing statue was to the Ottoman viceroy of Egypt, which was, at the time, the single greatest commercial drainage for the international slave trade
The statue standing in the Harbor of New York is officially called “Liberty Enlightening the World” (La Libertééclairant le monde) and the statue which was designed for Egypt was to be called “Egypt Enlightening the World” or, more awkwardly, "Progress Carrying the Light to Asia.Failing to close the deal in Egypt, Bartholdi repacked it for America. When this bit of story reached the American public’s ear, Bartholdi claimed that one project had nothing to do with the other, but the uniformity in designs is
Methodological individualism would want us to say that a group of French individuals funded the construction of the statue, and a several group of American individuals funded the foundation on which she now stands—its base dug into an island given to the expedient by yet a third group of individuals in the U.S. government. The American government ended up owning the statue, and therefore “the American people” own it in that euphemistic, grammar-school-civics-class sense. But in fact, there is a path in which the Statue of Liberty can legitimately be said to be American, and populist, and maybe even libertarian.
After Bartholdi and Laboulaye unsuccessful to get anyone in America especially excited about the project, Joseph Pulitzer the newspaper publisher began a popular campaign for private donations to fulfill the foundation of the statue. His campaign drawn more than 120,000 contributors. Most gave less than a dollar.
“We must raise the money!” Pulitzer declared in a March 16, 1885, editorial in the New York World. “Let us not wait for the millionaires to pay this money. It is not a gift from the millionaires of France to the millionaires of America, but a gift of the entire people of France to the entire people of