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4 days ago · When Louis XVI rejected the use of violence and ordered recalcitrant deputies to meet with the National Assembly on 27 June, the National Assembly became legal without resorting to violence. However, just a fortnight later the people of Paris had to rally to save it, ending with the 14 July assault on the Bastille. This body was to function as ...
5 days ago · “Rousseau’s The Social Contract,” Liberty, Equality, Fraternity Text Since no man has any natural authority over his fellow men, and since force is not the source of right, conventions remain as the basis of all lawful authority among men.
5 days ago · The Great Charter quickly became the cornerstone of English constitutional government. “The Magna Carta,” Liberty, Equality, Fraternity.
3 days ago · Qualifications for entry will be, above all, the love of equality and a deep feeling for the rights of man as made evident by the instinct to protect the weak and oppressed. Credits Alphonse Aulard, La Société des Jacobins: Recueil de documents pour l'histoire du Club des Jacobins de Paris, 6 vols. (Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1889–97), 1:xi.
4 days ago · They fostered new codes of conduct—including a communal understanding of liberty and equality inherited from guild sociability—"liberty, fraternity, and equality." [270] Scottish soldiers and Jacobite Scots brought to the Continent ideals of fraternity, which reflected not the local system of Scottish customs, but the institutions and ...
3 days ago · Text. The upper house of the legislature established by the Constitution of 1795. The Council of Five Hundred was the lower house. Deputies were elected (indirectly) to three-year terms. There was a major shift in the political views of the deputies selected in each election. Royalists did well in the Year V (1797), and the Jacobins recovered ...
3 days ago · Text. List of grievances written by each order (estate) for every bailliage and sénéchaussée (as well as a few other institutions) in France as part of the electoral process of the spring of 1789. The cahiers were intended to inform and instruct the deputies of local views and authorize reform. Cahiers of the third estate were written at the ...
