The first French Republic

THE FIRST FRENCH REPUBLIC: A STUDY OF THE ORIGIN AND THE CONTENTS OF THE DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS OF MAN, OF THE CONSTITUTION, AND OF THE ADOPTION OF THE REPUBLICAN FORM OF GOV...

Article 15 was both theoretical and reactionary against actual abuses. If the nation was to be supreme over all of its agents, it could only hope effectually to maintain that su...

The _Parlement_ of Brittany, in a remonstrance of July, 1771, said: “There is an essential difference between the transitory regulations which vary with the times, and the funda...

On September 30th, the monarch made the closing speech to the Assembly and was greeted with repeated shouts of _Vive le Roi_. The President responded to the royal speech by an e...

At the evening session of that day the time was consumed in hearing of the discourses of divers deputations that had come to congratulate the Convention upon the great work done...

[61] Saint Girons, _Droit public français_, treats thoroughly the question of separation of powers. Mirabeau in referring to the separation of powers, in a speech delivered in t...

[138] La liberté ne peut être suspendue; si le pouvoir exécutif n’agit point, il ne peut y avoir d’alternatives, c’est lui qui doit l’être: un seul homme ne doit point influence...