Looking at you french constitution of 1791
Looking at you french constitution of 1791
"The Constitution of 1791" - Grey History: The French Revolution
Grey History: The French Revolution
"It is a general and almost universal conviction that this Constitution is inexecutable. The makers of it to a man condemn it.” - Gouverneur Morris
With the republicans on the run, the newly established Feuillant Club had an opportunity to revise the constitution and cement its power. King Louis XVI accepts the Constitution of 1791, but historians and contemporaries alike criticize the document for possessing multiple flaws.
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French revolution, regarding the constitution of 1791. The active/passive citizen distinction disenfranchized about half the male population of France, among others servants were not given the vote. What, if anything in particular, was the argument against servants having voting rights?
As I understand it, mostly the distinction was about the idea that only people who paid more than a certain amount of tax have a stake in the fate of the nation, and thus only they should have a say in running it. My question is in regards to the specific disenfranchizement of servants. What where the practical reasons? What where the philosophical justifications?
On this very day in 1791—December 15—a young United States of America formally adopted the first ten amendments to its Constitution that we call the Bill of Rights.
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Today, 230 years ago in Poland, the Constitution of 3 May 1791 was officially ratified. It was the first constitution in Europe, and second in the world.
On the 3rd of May 1791, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth signed and adobted Europe's first and the world's second, modern written national constitution. It combined a monarchic republic with a clear division of executive, legislative, and judiciary powers.
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Declaration of joint European Heritage and Common Values on the occasion of 230th anniversary of the Constitution of 3 May 1791 and Mutual Pledge of 20 October 1791
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On this day, 230 years ago, the Constitution of 3 May 1791 of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was adopted. It was one the very first documents of its kind in the world, only preceded by the Constitution of the United States.
Happy Constitution Day From Lithuania, Poland! Today we commemorate the enactment of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Constitution that came into effect on May 3, 1791.
230 years ago, on 3rd of May 1791, Europe's first and the world's second, modern written national constitution was adopted by the Great Sejm for the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
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The Haitian Revolution was a successful insurrection by self-liberated slaves against French colonial rule in Saint-Domingue, now the sovereign state of Haiti, initiated by a slave revolt on this day in 1791.
On the 3rd of May 1791, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth signed and adobted Europe's first and the world's second, modern written national constitution. It combined a monarchic republic with a clear division of executive, legislative, and judiciary powers.
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A Map of the British North America in 1791 (in French: L'Amérique du Nord Britannique en 1791) - a free resource for teaching history in Canada
Peter Viktor von Besenval (1721-1791) was a Swiss baron, a mercenary officer in the service of the French crown, a passionate collector of objets d’art and plants and a notorious ladies’ man.
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Gruesome image of the French Revolution during the Reign of Terror, 1791
Two canons of the sunken french ship Orient by the coast of Alexandria that was destroyed in 1791 along with the french fleet in the battle of the Nile by the Britain
Happy Constitution Day From Lithuania, Poland! Today we commemorate the enactment of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Constitution that came into effect on May 3, 1791.
TIL when French activist, feminist and playwright Olympe de Gouges wrote "Declaration of the Rights of women and the Female Citizen" in 1791, in response to "Declaration of the Rights of Men" of 1789 which came after French Revolution; she was accused of treason and executed.
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The Constitution of 1791
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This week marks the anniversary of the Constitution of 1791. Criticised by historians and contemporaries alike, the ground-breaking and historic document had few friends and countless enemies. Too democratic to please the royalists and too monarchic to appease the republicans, the constitution failed to last for even two years (there would be new constitutions in 1793, 1795, 1799, 1802 and 1804). As a result, the new era promised by the document's proclamation failed to materialise, and neither peace nor prosperity was brought to the French Kingdom.
"The Constitution was a veritable monster. There was too much of monarchy in it for a republic, and too much of a republic for a monarchy. The King was a side-dish, an appetizer, everywhere present in appearance but without any actual power." - Étienne Dumont
If you want to learn more about the Constitution of 1791, check out the podcast, "Grey History: The French Revolution" - Episode 23, "The Constitution of 1791".
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Evolution of French political parties from 1791 to 2017
TDIH: September 13, 1791, King Louis XVI of France accepts the new constitution. Illustration: Proclamation of the Constitution on the place du marché des Innocents.
226 years ago, happened the declaration of the Constitution of May 3, 1791; First modern constitution in Europe
Article 2 of the French constitution of 1958 states that "the national emblem is the tricolor flag, blue, white, red."
"Here lies all of France" Robespierre guillotining the executioner while trampling on the 1791 and 1793 constitutions. France, 1794.
The constitution of 3rd May, 1791 - one of four signed manuscripts
[France] The National Assembly Drafts the Constitution of 1791
226 years ago today Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ratified the Constitution of May 3, 1791 - first one in Europe, second in the world. Did PLC/Europe knew about the Constitution of the US ratified two days earlier on May 1? Did it affect the creation of the Constitution of PLC?
TDIH: December 15th, 1791 - US Bill of Rights ratified when Virginia gives its approval, becomes amendments 1-10 of the US constitution
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In 1790/1791 the French National Assembly did away with the licensing of Doctors and Lawyers, allowing anyone to practice law or medicine. Such requirements would not be reinstated until Napoleon. Are there any records of this going comically badly?
I have just finished reading Jeremy Popkin's "a short history of the french revolution" and am curious about whether or not there are many recorded cases of people practicing law and medicine without a liscence during the French revolution. Could anyone with a table and a bonesaw really set up shop and perform surgery? Did anyone try? Were there any repurcussion for practicing law and medicine while being incompotent? How did this deregulation of these practices last so long?
Bonus question - The revolutionaries who would have done away with these regulations are often viewed as the ancestors of modern leftism / liberalism, whereas the monarchists are often viewed as the origin of modern conservatives. Today deregulation is primairily a right wing talking point. Is there a particular point where deregulation would have switched from removing policies that disproportionately benefited the rich to removing policies meant to help the poor?
Parliaments of Europe: Today in 1791, The Great Four-Year Sejm of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth voted to ratify the May 3 Constitution.
Apparently, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth introduced what wiki calls "the first codified constitution in modern European history" in 1791, 19 years after the beginning of the Partitionings. What did this constitution aim to achieve, and why did it come when it did?
What did the bookstore owner say when asked if he had copies of the French Constitution?
"Sorry, we don't sell periodicals."
The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, 1791
Haitian Creole was the majority language of the island of Haiti even prior to the Haitian Revolution in 1791. Did the white French population ever bother to learn Creole in significant numbers?
TDIH: June 21, 1791, King Louis XVI of France and his immediate family begin the Flight to Varennes during the French Revolution. Illustration: Louis XVI and his family, dressed as bourgeois, arrested in Varennes. Picture by Thomas Falcon Marshall.
When the First Federal Congress met in 1789, James Madison introduced 17 Amendments to add to the Constitution, which became the Bill of Rights. By December 1791, ten of his Amendments were ratified and added to the constitution of the United States. What were the 7 amendments that were dropped?
Curious what the founders didn't find important enough to add to the Bill of Rights.
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