HST 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Sans-Culottes, Culottes, Constitutional Monarchy
Document Summary
War and violence (mob violence, political violence, counter-revolutionary violence, and terror) radicalized the french revolution, leading to the creation of a republic, the rise of the jacobins, and the birth of a radically new, and distinctly modern, political culture. Considered modern: uses mass political terror to bring about change, adopt socialistic policies (guaranteed jobs, price control) After the declaration of the rights of man the assembly writes a constitution. Louis xvi is still around, but not an absolutist monarch he"s a constitutional monarch. Branches in the government are created (legislative, judicial) This is not a democracy people who pay a certain amount of tax are eligible to vote limited sufrage regime . Legislative assembly is created it is now the governing body in this new revolutionary regime. The church at this time: religious toleration (1789 for protestant, 1791 for jews, nationalization of church property the government takes the land and sells it to private owners.
