L’Esprit de la Révolution et de la Constitution de France

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L’Esprit de la Révolution et de la Constitution de France is a political treatise by Louis Antoine de Saint-Just that articulates his radical Jacobin vision of the principles and institutional foundations of the French Revolution.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
political treatise
advocates egalitarian social order
primacy of the general will
strong centralized republican government
associatedIdeology anti-monarchism
radical democracy
associatedWith Committee of Public Safety
Montagnards
author Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
countryOfOrigin France
criticizes aristocracy
feudal institutions
monarchy
discusses foundations of a republican constitution for France
moral basis of political authority
organization of revolutionary power
focusesOn institutional foundations of the French Republic
principles of revolutionary government
genre political philosophy
revolutionary literature
hasTitleInEnglish L’Esprit de la Révolution et de la Constitution de France self-linksurface differs
surface form: The Spirit of the Revolution and of the Constitution of France
historicalContext French Revolution
ideologicalOrientation revolutionary republicanism
influencedBy Enlightenment political thought
Rousseauian republicanism
intendedAudience French citizens engaged in the Revolution
revolutionary legislators
language French
mainSubject French Revolution
constitutional theory
popular sovereignty
republicanism
virtue in politics
movement Jacobin centralism
surface form: Jacobinism
philosophicalTheme relationship between virtue and law
role of institutions in preserving liberty
sovereignty of the people
politicalPosition radical Jacobin
relatedWorkOfAuthor Fragments sur les institutions républicaines
supports revolutionary terror as instrument of virtue
timePeriodDescribed late 18th century France

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Louis Antoine de Saint-Just notableWork L’Esprit de la Révolution et de la Constitution de France
L’Esprit de la Révolution et de la Constitution de France hasTitleInEnglish L’Esprit de la Révolution et de la Constitution de France self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: The Spirit of the Revolution and of the Constitution of France