Sovereignty and Citizenship

Universal Rights of Man?

Background Reading
Censer and Hunt, Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, pp. 49-84.

Discussion: 19 Oct. 2007, Rights and Representation
Jean Georges Wille, Memoirs and Diary (1857), extracts on-line.

abbé Sieyes, "What is the Third Estate?" (1789), extracts available on-line at Liberty, Equality, Fraternity [type "Sieyes" into the search box] or on the Liberty, Equality, Fraternity cd-rom.

Declaration of the Rights of man and citizen (1789), in Hunt and Censer, pp. 45-47.

Declaration of the Rights of Man (1793), on-line

Further Reading
Jennifer Heuer, The Family and the Nation: Gender and Citizenship in Revolutionary France, 1789-1830 (2005).
Olwen Hufton, Women and the Limits of Citizenship in the French Revolution (1992).
Lynn Hunt, The French Revolution and Human Rights: A Brief Documentary History (1996).
Joan Landes, Women in the Public Sphere in the Time of the French Revolution (1988).
Ronald Schechter, Obstinate Hebrews: Representations of Jews in France, 1715-1815 (2003).
Dale Van Kley, ed., The French Idea of Freedom: the Old Regime and the Declaration of Rights (1994).
Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Lynn Hunt, and Marilyn Young, eds., Human Rights and Revolutions (2000).

Human and Constitutional Rights
Resources (Columbia University Law School)


Universal declaration of human rights
(United Nations, 1948)