Contempary Criticisms of the French Declaration of 1789
Keywords:
rights, constitution, French Revolution, Catholic Church, obligations, history.Abstract
The aproval of the articles that would end up forming the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen experienced the opposition of important sectors of the French elites and the European intelligentsia. In this article, we try to reconstruct the different contemporary critical approaches to the Declaration, focusing on three sufficient relevant groups or individuals from the culture of their time. The first of these are those constituents that propose alternative declarations or articles to those that were finally approved. The second is the Pope’s position on the Declartion and the third is one of the most relevant European political thinkers of that time: Sir Edmund Burke. In this way, we tried to explore to what extent the arguments of these three sectors were intertwined or differend of each other.
Fecha de envío / Submission date: 2/11/2023
Fecha de aceptación / Acceptance date: 2/01/2024
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