Saturday, October 13, 2012
RANDOM ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA
FRANCE...........10/1789 a versailled banquet for soldiers, w/ royalist songs, while ladies too + FOOD pissed off the HUNGRY 'patriots' of paris to madness. a vast crowd of mostly women, w/ national gaurd headed by an unwilling lafayette marched to versailles, insulted the assembly + swarmed the palace gates. when the king came back from hunting-his only pleasure-he spoke them fair; but a struggle + blood not educated yet,thought it was fit to be treated w/ absolute power. in the ferment disturbances, the royal veto in their eyes + the old regime restored. paris was getting hotter. famine reigned, distrust + irritation. it was seen the royal familywere surrounding themselves w/ loyal troops. rumers. plans for vengence, communications w/ foreign powers + emmigrantnobles. the king was cool + practical to the rights of the tennis court + limited. + LIMITED monarchy w/out an absolute veto. a single chamber to make laws 'the revolution from its social side attacked the aristocracy,' says la vallee ' from its political side it attacked the monarchy. a single body where the king's veto could be overturned. seemed best. the great problem w/the revolution tho was its simplicity 'purity. no checks or balances. all be conservative, logical. ambition, vices. prejudices were disregarded. the nation alone remained to public functionaries in the discharged. all frenchmen of their duties. venality or hereditary succession abolished. all frenchmen equal + common. no guildsor corporations + law not recognize religious office. the declaration of equality, put the monarch UNDER the people- not exactly subversive to the monarch, but 2 centuries of bourbon tradition; LXVI could not become a constitutional king. the assembly also formed the constitution according to the oath.
principles made, assembly worked on abolishing shit that was anti-liberty + rights of man!
"nobility, peerage, hereditary distinction, distinct orders of chivalry, corporatons etc, w/ required proof of nobility,or presupposed distinction of birth." were all declared to be swept away, such distinction" must be treated well. blah blah
1, all men are created equal; social distinctions conventional.
2, society is an association of MEN to preserve the natural rights of man.
3, sovereignty resides in the nation, all authority vested in individuals + come from the nation,
4, liberty is power of doing what we, so long as we do not injure another, the only limits is that all are secure.
5, the law can forbid only that which is MISCHIEVOUS to society.(citizens united!!!!) "quod lex non vetatper mittit"
6, law is the expression of general will, all citizen a a right to take part. EVEN THE STUPID.
7, accusation, arrest, detention, must follow the law.
8, the law must be reasonable + not retroactive force.
9, all are innocent till hey are convicted + treated well.
10, all men are free in their religious beliefs.
11 freedom of speech, of writing, + printing is most precious(not guns).
12 a public force being needed, but should be for all, not just the rich.
13 tax needed for army & govt EQUAL TO THEIR MEANS(PROGRESSIVE).
14 all citizens have a right to show that public contributions ARE NECESSARY.
15 society has a right to demand public account of a public servant.
16 a society w/ no assured rights, has no constitution of the general will; all citizens have a right to take part, thru their representative, in the making of laws. laws must be equal for all; all citizens have equal rights. to fill all offices in the state.
17 property being innate + sacred. can't be taken unless societyneeds + w/ be paid for.
its enemies could at once have accused it of haste + inconsequence, of passion + pure love of destruction, as a fact, the declaration of the rights of man rank, as madame de stael says, 'side by side w/ the english bill of rights + the american declaration' blah blah rights new to feudal french.
hunting lands 42-50 miles around paris-deers, eating farms connected w/ famine in paris. when this laid out to the king, they saw king against it + on a technical grounds he refused. then the assembly advanced the great declaration of the rights of man- a general statement of civil society.
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carlyle sneered. -rights yes, but duties where are they? + what reference in there to might? still it is clear that, ha the assembly not occupied relics of feudalism swept clean canvas. nobles, clergy, the pays d' etats, + free cities all laid down their characteristic + special privileges + begged to be absorbed by equality.
FRANCE...........10/1789 a versailled banquet for soldiers, w/ royalist songs, while ladies too + FOOD pissed off the HUNGRY 'patriots' of paris to madness. a vast crowd of mostly women, w/ national gaurd headed by an unwilling lafayette marched to versailles, insulted the assembly + swarmed the palace gates. when the king came back from hunting-his only pleasure-he spoke them fair; but a struggle + blood not educated yet,thought it was fit to be treated w/ absolute power. in the ferment disturbances, the royal veto in their eyes + the old regime restored. paris was getting hotter. famine reigned, distrust + irritation. it was seen the royal familywere surrounding themselves w/ loyal troops. rumers. plans for vengence, communications w/ foreign powers + emmigrantnobles. the king was cool + practical to the rights of the tennis court + limited. + LIMITED monarchy w/out an absolute veto. a single chamber to make laws 'the revolution from its social side attacked the aristocracy,' says la vallee ' from its political side it attacked the monarchy. a single body where the king's veto could be overturned. seemed best. the great problem w/the revolution tho was its simplicity 'purity. no checks or balances. all be conservative, logical. ambition, vices. prejudices were disregarded. the nation alone remained to public functionaries in the discharged. all frenchmen of their duties. venality or hereditary succession abolished. all frenchmen equal + common. no guildsor corporations + law not recognize religious office. the declaration of equality, put the monarch UNDER the people- not exactly subversive to the monarch, but 2 centuries of bourbon tradition; LXVI could not become a constitutional king. the assembly also formed the constitution according to the oath.
principles made, assembly worked on abolishing shit that was anti-liberty + rights of man!
"nobility, peerage, hereditary distinction, distinct orders of chivalry, corporatons etc, w/ required proof of nobility,or presupposed distinction of birth." were all declared to be swept away, such distinction" must be treated well. blah blah
1, all men are created equal; social distinctions conventional.
2, society is an association of MEN to preserve the natural rights of man.
3, sovereignty resides in the nation, all authority vested in individuals + come from the nation,
4, liberty is power of doing what we, so long as we do not injure another, the only limits is that all are secure.
5, the law can forbid only that which is MISCHIEVOUS to society.(citizens united!!!!) "quod lex non vetatper mittit"
6, law is the expression of general will, all citizen a a right to take part. EVEN THE STUPID.
7, accusation, arrest, detention, must follow the law.
8, the law must be reasonable + not retroactive force.
9, all are innocent till hey are convicted + treated well.
10, all men are free in their religious beliefs.
11 freedom of speech, of writing, + printing is most precious(not guns).
12 a public force being needed, but should be for all, not just the rich.
13 tax needed for army & govt EQUAL TO THEIR MEANS(PROGRESSIVE).
14 all citizens have a right to show that public contributions ARE NECESSARY.
15 society has a right to demand public account of a public servant.
16 a society w/ no assured rights, has no constitution of the general will; all citizens have a right to take part, thru their representative, in the making of laws. laws must be equal for all; all citizens have equal rights. to fill all offices in the state.
17 property being innate + sacred. can't be taken unless societyneeds + w/ be paid for.
its enemies could at once have accused it of haste + inconsequence, of passion + pure love of destruction, as a fact, the declaration of the rights of man rank, as madame de stael says, 'side by side w/ the english bill of rights + the american declaration' blah blah rights new to feudal french.
hunting lands 42-50 miles around paris-deers, eating farms connected w/ famine in paris. when this laid out to the king, they saw king against it + on a technical grounds he refused. then the assembly advanced the great declaration of the rights of man- a general statement of civil society.
,_reve%CC%82tu_du_grand_costume_royal_en_1779_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg)
