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The first French Republic

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The study traces the political origins and development of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the first written French constitution, and follows the political movement that culminated in abolition of monarchy and adoption of a republican executive. It examines intellectual influences, comparative references to foreign constitutional examples, and the debates and drafts produced within the constitutional assemblies, using contemporaneous writings and parliamentary records to reconstruct how principles, institutional choices, and partisan conflicts shaped the founding documents.

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Title: 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 government in 1792

Author: Horace Mann Conaway

Release date: June 12, 2023 [eBook #70965]

Language: English

Original publication: United States: Columbia University Press, 1902

Credits: Emmanuel Ackerman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

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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
GOVERNMENT IN 1792.

BY
HORACE MANN CONAWAY,
Sometime Fellow in European History in Columbia University.

SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS
FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
IN THE

Faculty of Political Science
Columbia University
.

New York.
1902.