An Examination of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen Decreed by the Constituent Assembly of FranceBentham, Jeremy
As to civil law, the many different law used in different districts of France were to be replaced by a single legal code. The Constituent Assembly, on 5 October 1790, voted for a codification of the laws of France. The Constitution ...
Some historians, in seeking to salvage something of a notion of 'bourgeois' revolution from revisionist onslaughts, have, however, continued to focus their attention on the internal economic policy of the National Constituent Assembly, seeing it as exemplitive of laissez-faire capitalism and arguably...
The right to adopt a constitution (the constituent authority) is given to a constituent assembly (for example, in Italy and India), to the electorate by means of a referendum (for example, in France and Turkey), or to the head of the state (for example, in Iran and Afghanistan). As ...
Trade and the Regeneration of France, 1789–91: Liberalism, Protectionism and the Commercial Policy of the National Constituent Assembly 喜欢 0 阅读量: 20 作者: Jeremy J. Whiteman 摘要: The recent rise in the importance of the notion of political culture in French Revolutionary historiography ...
(1798) of hostilities between the United States and France, it was stationed in Caribbean waters. After theConstellation,commanded by Thomas Truxtun, encountered and captured (Feb., 1799) the vesselInsurgente,it won (Feb., 1800) a hard-fought victory over another French frigate, theVengeance....
1. To be the constituent parts of: compose, form, make (up). 2. To be equivalent or tantamount: amount, correspond, equal. Idiom: have all the earmarks. 3. To put in force or cause to be by legal authority: enact, establish, legislate, make, promulgate. 4. To bring into existenc...
But, although the advantages of asystem of units were recognized long ago, the f i rst system of units appeared only atthe end of the eighteenth century. This was the celebrated metric system (meter,kilogram, second), authorized March 26, 1791 by the Constituent Assembly ofFrance. The f ...
Collective Wisdom: The Optimal Design of a Constituent Assembly If there is one task for which "wisdom" would seem highly desirable, it is that of writing a constitution that is intended to last for the indefinite future. In fact, wisdom is not only desirable in light of the importance of...
the old Abbé Morellet, needs a certificate of civism, to enable him to obtain payment of the small pension of one thousand francs, which the Constituent Assembly had voted him in recompense for his writings; the Commune, desiring information about this, selects three of its body to inquire...