Author: William Farr ChurchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Constitutional Thought in Sixteenth-century France
Author: William Farr ChurchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Constitutional Thought in Sixteenth-century France
Author: William Farr ChurchThe Evolution of Constitutional Thought in Sixteenth Century France
Author: William Farr ChurchConstitutional Thought in Sixteenth-century France
Author: William Farr ChurchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
The French Idea of Freedom
Author: Dale Van KleyPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804728065
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
"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.
Franco-Gallia
Author: François HotmanPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Franco-Gallia" (Or, An Account of the Ancient Free State of France, and / Most Other Parts of Europe, Before the Loss of Their / Liberties) by François Hotman. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Anti-Italianism in Sixteenth-century France
Author: Henry HellerPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802036896
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
He also discusses the important role of anti-Italian xenophobia in the events surrounding the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre, the Estates-General of Blois in 1576-7, the Catholic League revolt, and the triumph of Henri IV.".
French Ceremonial Entries in the Sixteenth Century
Author: Hélène VisentinPublisher: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies
ISBN: 9780772720337
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The articles in this volume use a variety of disciplinary approaches to examine texts and archival documents recording sixteenth-century French ceremonial entries. By their very nature, ceremonial entries require such an approach: they bring together a number of artistic media, including music, architecture, and literature, and a range of political concerns, like international diplomacy and the relations between urban and royal power. Few cultural constructs offer such rich and varied terrain to the student of sixteenth-century France. The primary purpose of this collection is, therefore, to reflect upon salient aspects of ceremonial entries that may help us to understand how this ritual performed its complex and multidimensional cultural, intellectual, historical, and political work in order to cast a new light on French society in the early modern period.
Montesquieu's Liberalism and the Problem of Universal Politics
Author: Keegan CallananPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108428177
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Montesquieu's liberalism and critique of universalism in politics, often thought to stand in tension, comprise a coherent philosophical and political project.
Popular Sovereignty in Early Modern Constitutional Thought
Author: Daniel LeePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191062448
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Popular sovereignty - the doctrine that the public powers of state originate in a concessive grant of power from "the people" - is the cardinal doctrine of modern constitutional theory, placing full constitutional authority in the people at large, rather than in the hands of judges, kings, or a political elite. This book explores the intellectual origins of this influential doctrine and investigates its chief source in late medieval and early modern thought - the legal science of Roman law. Long regarded the principal source for modern legal reasoning, Roman law had a profound impact on the major architects of popular sovereignty such as François Hotman, Jean Bodin, and Hugo Grotius. Adopting the juridical language of obligations, property, and personality as well as the classical model of the Roman constitution, these jurists crafted a uniform theory that located the right of sovereignty in the people at large as the legal owners of state authority. In recovering the origins of popular sovereignty, the book demonstrates the importance of the Roman law as a chief source of modern constitutional thought.