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Human Rights and Humanity’s Rights During Year Three of the French Revolution

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Authors:
  1. Eduardo Baker

    1. Law, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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  • Analyzes the debates and drafts for the French Constitution and Declaration of 1793

  • Examines the philosophy of law advanced during the radical democratization period of the French Revolution

  • Argues for a reappraisal of French revolutionary thought within contemporary political theory

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-v
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  2. Introduction

    • Eduardo Baker
    Pages 1-6

  3. Thinking the French Revolution (and Law)

    • Eduardo Baker
    Pages 7-49

  4. Excursus: Introducing the Archive

    • Eduardo Baker
    Pages 51-61

  5. External Relations and Sovereignties

    • Eduardo Baker
    Pages 63-94

  6. Facets of the Executive Branch

    • Eduardo Baker
    Pages 95-134

  7. The Legislative Body

    • Eduardo Baker
    Pages 135-180

  8. Republic and Citizenship

    • Eduardo Baker
    Pages 181-245

  9. Final Remarks

    • Eduardo Baker
    Pages 247-258

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 259-265
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About this book

This book explores the constitutional debates of the Year 3 of the French Revolution (also known as Year 1 of the French Republic) and the drafts for the Declaration and the Constitution of 1793. It presents the revolutionaries’ distinct view on human rights and the rights of the peoples, as well as their philosophical underpinnings. After discussing how contemporary legal history and theory, and political philosophy approached the revolutionary period, the book tackles the main topics covered during the debates and proposals. Starting with the issue of external relations and the sovereignty of the people and ending with natural rights and Republicanism, this book shows how apparently technical questions (such as what procedure should be implemented to declare a war) are intertwined with philosophical reflections on rights and with problems that were urgent at the time.

 


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“Eduardo Baker offers us a masterly study of the Constitutional drafts sent to the Convention in the spring of 1793. These drafts have rarely been fully studied and this book will fill a historiographical void. Against the simplistic and monolithic views that often prevail in historiography and among legal philosophers, Baker restores the theoretical complexity and variety of the constitutional debates on Human rights in Year I of the Republic.” (Marc Belissa, Université de Paris-Nanterre, France)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Law, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Eduardo Baker

About the author

Eduardo Baker is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He has also worked as an international human rights lawyer for the past ten years in regional and universal human rights protection systems.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Human Rights and Humanity’s Rights During Year Three of the French Revolution

  • Authors: Eduardo Baker

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99508-9

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-99507-2Published: 24 June 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-99510-2Published: 25 June 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-99508-9Published: 22 June 2022

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: V, 265

  • Topics: History of France, Political History, Legal History, History, general

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