Using a diverse range of sources, Robert H. Blackman reconstructs key constitutional debates, from the initial convocation of the Estates General in Versailles in May 1789, to the National Assembly ...

On June 17, 1789, after Louis denied its petition for a one man-one vote policy, the Third Estate seceded and formed the National Assembly. On July 11 Louis XVI ordered the army to disband it.

The French Revolution of 1789 not only propelled all of Europe ... would not grant them citizenship as decreed by the National Assembly of France in its "Declaration of the Rights of Man." ...

After the revolution of 1789, French citizens sought uniform weights and measures throughout the nation. The National Assembly and subsequent national governments commissioned the Paris Academy of ...

Instead of allowing the Right to dominate discussions of patriotism, socialists should emulate past successful left projects ...

Critics have found a skeleton in the closet almost as soon as Michel Barnier was named France’s new prime minister ...

L egal experts across the political spectrum expressed alarm when the U.S. Supreme Court, ruling on Donald Trump’s claims to ...

In May 1789, King Louis XVI called a meeting of ... and splintered off to form their own group, called the National Assembly. Initially, most of the delegates’ aim was to limit the extent ...

For as long as the center fails to make its case in a way that galvanizes, there will be many more like Sahra Wagenknecht.

This rebalancing takes into account not only the current weight of each party in the National Assembly (where France ... as ...

Although French Revolutionaries of 1789 abolished the crime of sodomy ... lawmakers who voted against that change in the National Assembly in December 1981. “Their argument was that it was ...