Revolution and Rights Flashcards
What is Enlightement
1784
The Bill of Rights
1688
“What is the Third Estate” - Sieyès
1789
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
Aug 26, 1789
Le Chapelier Law
June 1791 - guilds/workers organizations and strikes illegal –> proclamation of free enterprise as the norm
Assignats
The assignats were issued after the confiscation of church properties in 1790 because the government was bankrupt. The government thought that the financial problems could be solved by printing certificates representing the value of church properties.
Edmund Burke “Reflections on the Revolution in France”
1790 - no man should judge his own cause
Cordelier Club
Political participation for commoners
Constitution 1791
France a pacifist nation
Enclosure acts and its consequences
General Enclosure Act 1801 - powerful landowners influence Parliament. “The abuses of the Industrial Revolution were standardized, institutionalized and carried to excess by government and the use of political means” - Wendy McElroy. Press-gangs
La Feyette
Hero of two worlds
Aims of both revolutions
American - Liberty - absolute freedom
French - equality - “freedom shall be defined by law”
Abolition of slavery in FR
1794 –> Napoleon returned it in 1802 but not on mainland
National Convention and Terror
Sept 1793
Girondins - “We must preserve the ideals of free speech and Liberty at all costs. Otherwise the French Revolution is not worth fighting for.”
Jacobins - “we must suspend free speech and Liberty so we can win the war. Otherwise, there will be nothing left to defend”
Robespierre guillotined
July 1794