The French Idea of Freedom: The Old Regime and the Declaration of Rights of 1789Stanford University Press, 1994 - 436 páginas "The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen of 1789 is the French Revolution s best known utterance. By 1789, to be sure, England looked proudly back to the Magna Carta, the Petition of Right, and a bill of rights, and even the young American Declaration of Independence and the individual states various declarations and bills of rights preceded the French Declaration. But the French deputies of the National Assembly tried hard, in the words of one of their number, not to receive lessons from others but rather "to give them to the rest of the world, to proclaim not the rights of Frenchmen, but those "for all times and nations. The chapters in this book treat mainly the origins of the Declaration in the political thought and practice of the preceding three centuries that Tocqueville designated the "Old Regime. Among the topics covered are privileged corporations; the events of the three months preceding the Declaration; blacks, Jews, and women; the Assembly s debates on the Declaration; the influence of sixteenth-century notions of sovereignty and the separation of powers; the rights of the accused in legal practices and political trials from 1716 to 1789; the natural rights to freedom of religion; and the monarchy s "feudal exploitation of the royal domain. |
Contenido
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen | 1 |
Old Regime Origins of Democratic Liberty | 23 |
From the Lessons of French History to Truths | 72 |
Jews Blacks and | 114 |
The Idea of a Declaration of Rights | 154 |
Religious Toleration and Freedom of Expression | 265 |
Property Sovereignty the Declaration of | 300 |
Glossary | 343 |
Abbreviations | 363 |
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The French Idea of Freedom: The Old Regime and the Declaration of Rights of 1789 Dale Van Kley Vista previa limitada - 1995 |
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Página iv - Law is the expression of the general will. All citizens have the right to take part personally or by their representatives in its formation. It must be the same for all, whether it protects or punishes.
Página iii - The representatives of the French people, organized in National Assembly, considering that ignorance, forgetfulness or contempt of the rights of man are the sole causes of the public miseries and of the corruption of governments, have resolved to set forth in a solemn declaration the natural, inalienable, and sacred rights of man...
Página iii - Men are born and remain free and equal in rights. Social distinctions can be based only upon public utility. 2. The aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression.
Página iv - No man should be accused, arrested, or held in confinement, except in cases determined by the law, and according to the forms which it has prescribed.
Página iii - Assembly recognizes and declares, in the presence and under the auspices of the Supreme Being, the following rights of man and citizen.