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Freedom in French Enlightenment Thought examines how five eighteenth-century French theorists Montesquieu, Diderot, Rousseau, Voltaire, and Condorcet kindled the flame of freedom in America and France. Each thinker laid down a building block that would eventually inspire the language in constitutions around the world. They held that citizens have certain inalienable rights that are dictated by natural law and endowed to all by our Creator; that these rights include equality before the law, justice, safety and security of persons and property, and freedom of speech, press, assembly, and religion. Montesquieu recommended three separate branches of government that function independently of each other. Diderot held that there is no true sovereign, except the nation; that there is no true legislator, except the people. Rousseau advised that the individual will must be subordinate to the general will and private interest to that of the community: he warned against legislators who ac

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      Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 1/9/2010 12:02:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9781433109393, 978-1433109393
      ISBN10: 1433109395

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      Book Synopsis
      Freedom in French Enlightenment Thought examines how five eighteenth-century French theorists Montesquieu, Diderot, Rousseau, Voltaire, and Condorcet kindled the flame of freedom in America and France. Each thinker laid down a building block that would eventually inspire the language in constitutions around the world. They held that citizens have certain inalienable rights that are dictated by natural law and endowed to all by our Creator; that these rights include equality before the law, justice, safety and security of persons and property, and freedom of speech, press, assembly, and religion. Montesquieu recommended three separate branches of government that function independently of each other. Diderot held that there is no true sovereign, except the nation; that there is no true legislator, except the people. Rousseau advised that the individual will must be subordinate to the general will and private interest to that of the community: he warned against legislators who ac

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