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Dale . Ed(S): Van Kley - The French Idea of Freedom. The Old Regime and the Declaration of Rights of 1789.  - 9780804723558 - V9780804723558
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The French Idea of Freedom. The Old Regime and the Declaration of Rights of 1789.

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Description for The French Idea of Freedom. The Old Regime and the Declaration of Rights of 1789. Hardback. This book explores the origins of the Declaration in the political thought and practice of the preceding three centuries that Tocqueville designated the "Old Regime." Editor(s): Van Kley, Dale. Series: The Making of Modern Freedom Series. Num Pages: 452 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JB; 3JD; 3JF; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 158 x 33. Weight in Grams: 777.

“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 ... Read more

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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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
452
Condition
New
Series
The Making of Modern Freedom Series
Number of Pages
452
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804723558
SKU
V9780804723558
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