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The Constitution: Mounier and Sieyès. |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; List of Maps; Foreword; Part 1: The Challenge; Preface to Part 1; I. The Age of the Democratic Revolution; The Revolution of Western Civilization; A "Democratic" Revolution: "Democrat" and "Aristocrat" in European Languages; A Preview of What Follows; II. Aristocracy about 1760: The Constituted Bodies; The Diets of Eastern Europe; Councils and Estates of the Middle Zone; The Provincial Estates and Parlements of France; Parliaments and Assemblies in the British Isles and America; III. Aristocracy about 1760: Theory and Practice. |
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Montesquieu, Real de Curban, Blackstone, WarburtonUses and Abuses of Social Rank; Problems of Administration, Recruitment, Taxation, and Class Consciousness; IV. Clashes with Monarchy; The QuasiRevolution in France, 1763-1774; The Monarchist Coup d'Etat of 1772 in Sweden; The Hapsburg Empire; V.A Clash with Democracy: Geneva and JeanJacques Rousseau; Rousseau, Voltaire, and Geneva to 1762; The Social Contract, 1762; The Genevese Revolution of 1768; VI. The British Parliament between King and People; The British Constitution; The First American Crisis: The Stamp Act. |
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Tribulations of Parliament, 1766-1774The Second American Crisis: The Coercive Acts and the Continental Congress; VII. The American Revolution: The Forces in Conflict; The Revolution: Was There Any?; AngloAmerica before the Revolution; The Revolution: Democracy and Aristocracy; The Revolution: Britain and Europe; VIII. The American Revolution: The People as Constituent Power; The Distinctiveness of American Political Ideas; Constitution-Making in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts; A Word on the Constitution of the United States; Ambivalence of the American Revolution. |
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IX. Europe and the American RevolutionThe Sense of a New Era; Channels of Communication; The Depths of Feeling; The American Constitutions: An International Argument; X. Two Parliaments Escape Reform; The Arming of Ireland: "Grattan's Parliament"; The "Association" Movement in England; The Reform Bills and Their Failure; The Conservatism of Edmund Burke; The "Appellation of Citizen" vs. the Test Act; XI. Democrats and Aristocrats-Dutch, Belgian, and Swiss; The Dutch Patriot Movement; The Belgian Revolution; A View of Switzerland; Reflections on the Foregoing. |
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XII. The Limitations of Enlightened DespotismJoseph II: The Attempted Revolution from Above; Leopold II: The Aristocratic Counterattack; Three Charters of the North; XIII. The Lessons of Poland; The Gentry Republic; The Polish Revolution: The Constitution of 1791; A Game of Ideological Football; XIV. The French Revolution: The Aristocratic Resurgence; The Problem of the French Revolution; Ministers and Parlements, 1774-1788; The Aristocratic Revolt; XV. The French Revolution: The Explosion of 1789; The Formation of a Revolutionary Psychology; The Overturn: May to August 1789. |
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Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU |
| ISBN |
9781400850228 (electronic bk.) |
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1400850223 (electronic bk.) |
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9780691161280 |
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0691161283 |
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