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Oct 23, 2026
Isaac MeyerHOST
I'll return here to quoting from Abel's quote, "...French Enlightenment philosophers, most notably Montesquieu in his Spirit of the Laws, understood feudal law to be a system of exploitation of peasants viewed against the backdrop of the parceling out of national sovereignty to private individuals." For them, feudalité, feudalism, denoted the aggregate of seniorial privileges and prerogatives which could be justified neither by reason nor by justice.
Isaac MeyerHOST
When the National Constituent Assembly of the French Revolution abolished the feudal regime in August 1789, this is what they meant.
Isaac MeyerHOST
Across the channel, Adam Smith and the Wealth of Nations coined the phrase feudal system to describe a form of production governed not by market forces, but by coercion and force.
Isaac MeyerHOST
For Smith, the feudal system was the economic exploitation of peasants by their lords, which led to an economy and society marked by poverty, brutality, exploitation, and wide gaps between the rich and poor.
Amelia HamiltonHOST
He even used the 1776 Virginia Declaration of Rights as part of his inspiration.
Amelia HamiltonHOST
while the National Constituent Assembly officially adopted it in August of 1789.
Amelia HamiltonHOST
Essentially, it says that men are born free and equal.
Amelia HamiltonHOST
It guarantees rights like property, liberty, and resistance to oppression.
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Eletto deputato del terzo Stato agli Stati Generali del 1789 dopo Cristo, si guadagnò rapidamente l'appellativo di incorruttibile grazie al rifiuto ostinato di favori personali, denaro o cariche istituzionali vantaggiose.
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Dagli scranni dell'Assemblea Nazionale costituente condusse battaglie politiche all'avanguardia per l'epoca, sostenne il suffragio universale maschile senza requisiti censitari, richiese l'abolizione definitiva della pena capitale in tempo di pace e difese con vigore la completa emancipazione degli ebrei e l'abolizione della schiavitù nelle colonie francesi d'oltremare.
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Il Comitato di Salute Pubblica è il terrore come strumento di salvezza nazionale.
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La precipitazione degli eventi bellici contro la coalizione delle monarchie europee e lo scoppio dell'insurrezione antirivoluzionaria in Vandea mutarono drasticamente la visione strategica del leader giacobino.
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So what happened on September 30th? Well, 1399, Henry IV is proclaimed King of England.
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1791, the National Constituent Assembly in Paris is dissolved.
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Parisians hail Maximilien Robespierre and Jérôme Pétain as incorruptible patriots.
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1791, the first performance of The Magic Flute.