passive citizens in french revolution

Contestation concerned the character of revolutionary government and its executors but for ordinary French people it also concerned citizen- ship

ers remained passive citizens or even non-citizens. Once again inclusion was the French Revolution.38 A parallel argument emerged in Italy with Etrusco-.

What difference does the character of citizen ship make to routine social life? French experience matters in these regards because French revolution aries 

of the Revolution and few were definitively resolved. Under the first constitution passive citizens were distinguished from active according to levels of 

In Section I you will read about the French Revolution

the idea of Jews living in France as passive citizens; rather what disturbed him was the possibility of being ruled by them. Finally

The French Revolutionary Constitution of 1791 made women citizens of a kind if only "passive" citizens

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In Section I you will read about the French Revolution

The formation of citizen militias ushered in the Revolution all over France; groups: passive citizens who enjoyed civil rights only; active citizens

The great symbolic gesture of the French Revolution was the insistence that aged progression of rights the managed promotion of passive citizens to the.

For women the legacy of the French Revolution was contradictory: a constitution

between "active" and "passive" citizens between independent

French revolutionary leaders insisting upon the principles of equality before the law and the idea of Jews living in France as passive citizens; rather.

during the French Revolution of 1789 and the Paris Commune of 1870. which sets out the initial constitutional definition of active and passive citizens.

Chapter I is on the French Revolution. The French Revolution led to the end of monarchy in France. A ... Passive citizens: no voting rights.

between "active" and "passive" citizens between independent

The French Revolutionary Constitution of 1791 made women citizens of a kind if only "passive" citizens

Topic: The French Revolution. Subject: History. 1. When did women in France get the right to vote? Who were not considered 'passive citizens'? (a) Women.

zenship" in The French Revolution and the Meaning of Citizenship

passive citizens He argues that the revolutionaries conceived of passive citi-zenship as the temporary suspension of active citizenship They expected that as the economic and cultural benefits of the Revolution began to make them-selves felt more and more passive citizens would meet the conditions re-quired of active citizens

and “passive” citizens All male Frenchmen over 25 were citizens However unless one paid 3 days’ unskilled wages in taxes one was a passive citizen and ineligible to vote Active citizens could vote for the primary assembly To be eligible for the secondary assemblies which actually elected deputies one had to pay 10 days’ wages

1789-1791 (Oxford: Oxford University Press 1988); Simon Schama Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution (New York: Knopf 1989); Keith Michael Baker Inventing the French Revolution: Essays on French Political culture in the Eighteenth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1990)

Women and the Revolution Women participated in virtually every aspect of the French Revolution but their participation almost always proved controversial Women's status in the family society and politics had long been a subject of polemics In the eighteenth century those who favored improving the status of women insisted primarily on women's

Many French people support the Consulate because it restores order and helps the nation run better (the Napoleonic Code is instituted and its legal and financial reforms are instrumental in creating an effective efficient system of government) • The Empire (1804—1813) SECTION 47+48