The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen 1789 and 1793
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Published: 1985
Total Pages: 12
ISBN-13: 9780947608057
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Published: 1985
Total Pages: 12
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thomas Paine
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Published: 1906
Total Pages: 172
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 32
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 32
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Dale Van Kley
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1995-04-01
Total Pages: 460
ISBN-13: 0804788162
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“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.
Author: Olympe de Gouges
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 40
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Dan Edelstein
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2021-06
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 022679430X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy the end of the eighteenth century, politicians in America and France were invoking the natural rights of man to wrest sovereignty away from kings and lay down universal basic entitlements. Exactly how and when did “rights” come to justify such measures? In On the Spirit of Rights, Dan Edelstein answers this question by examining the complex genealogy of the rights that regimes enshrined in the American and French Revolutions. With a lively attention to detail, he surveys a sprawling series of debates among rulers, jurists, philosophers, political reformers, writers, and others who were all engaged in laying the groundwork for our contemporary systems of constitutional governance. Every seemingly new claim about rights turns out to be a variation on a theme, as late medieval notions were subtly repeated and refined to yield the talk of “rights” we recognize today. From the Wars of Religion to the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen to the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, On the Spirit of Rights is a sweeping tour through centuries of European intellectual history and an essential guide to our ways of thinking about human rights today.
Author: Toussaint L'Ouverture
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 2019-11-12
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 1788736575
DOWNLOAD EBOOKToussaint L’Ouverture was the leader of the Haitian Revolution in the late eighteenth century, in which slaves rebelled against their masters and established the first black republic. In this collection of his writings and speeches, former Haitian politician Jean-Bertrand Aristide demonstrates L’Ouverture’s profound contribution to the struggle for equality.
Author: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
Publisher: Government Printing Office
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9780160831188
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Learn About the United States" is intended to help permanent residents gain a deeper understanding of U.S. history and government as they prepare to become citizens. The product presents 96 short lessons, based on the sample questions from which the civics portion of the naturalization test is drawn. An audio CD that allows students to listen to the questions, answers, and civics lessons read aloud is also included. For immigrants preparing to naturalize, the chance to learn more about the history and government of the United States will make their journey toward citizenship a more meaningful one.
Author: John Adams
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Published: 1776
Total Pages: 46
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