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Benjamin Constant is a Brazilian town of 44,000 people (2020) across the river from Peru in Amazonas (Brazil) region. It lies about a half-hour motorboat ride southwest from Leticia and Tabatinga .
Constant does not consider the judiciary branch to constitute a proper political power, cf. Benjamin Constant, Fragments d’un ouvrage abandonné sur la possibilité d’une constitution républicaine dans un grand pays, ed. Henri Grange (Paris: Aubier, 1991), 149.
Benjamin Constant, like Immanuel Kant, analyzed politics from a double perspective. Kant divided his Metaphysics of Morals into what he called the “Doctrine of Right,” about how human behavior affects other people, which is the business of the state, and the “Doctrine of Virtue,” which relates to…
BENJAMIN CONSTANT AND THE MAKING OF MODERN LIBERALISM by Stephen Holmes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984. Pp. 337, $27.50. The name of Benjamin Constant is often invoked by the defenders of political moderation and constitutional liberty, although one suspects that his works are read much less often than they are appealed to. His
Artist: Benjamin-Constant (Jean-Joseph-Benjamin Constant) (French, Paris 1845–1902 Paris) Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 80 3/4 x 48 3/4 in. (205.1 x 123.8 cm) Classification: Paintings. Credit Line: Gift of Kenneth Jay Lane, 2017. Accession Number: 2017.202.2
Benjamin Constant is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Amazonas. Its population was 43,935 (2020) and its area is 8,793 km² (5,495 mi²).
The son of a Swiss officer in the Dutch service whose family was of French origin, he was born Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque on Oct. 25, 1767, in Lausanne, Switzerland. He studied at Erlangen (Germany), briefly at the University of Oxford, and at Edinburgh. In 1787 he formed, in Paris, his first liaison, with Madame de Charrière, 27 ...
