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The French Idea of Freedom - The Old Regime and the Declaration of Rights of 1789 (Hardcover)
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The French Idea of Freedom - The Old Regime and the Declaration of Rights of 1789 (Hardcover)
Series: The Making of Modern Freedom
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"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.
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