The Right of Resistance to Oppression

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8940176
AutoresMicah Alpaugh (0000-0003-1388-9024, autor de correspondencia)
Año2016
Volumen39
Número3
Páginas567-598
Fecha de publicación2016-07-29
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaFrench Historical Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0016-1071 • E-ISSN: 1527-5493
EditorialDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/00161071-3500321
OpenAlexW2478070768
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas50

Perhaps the least self-evident right of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen was that of “resistance to oppression.” Emerging from the Anglo-American rights tradition as a check on corrupt power, the term was adapted by the marquis de Lafayette for French politics in his Declaration of Rights proposed on July 11, 1789. Following the Bastille's fall and the contestations of the early to mid-Revolution, resistance to oppression would come to suggest a general right to protest against measures violating human rights. Indeed, the revised 1793 Declaration of Rights enshrined insurrection as “the most sacred of duties” (le plus saint des devoirs). Yet in the Constitution of the Year III, the right of resistance would be eliminated entirely. Based upon a broad reading of debates in the National Assemblies and printed public sphere, this article examines how revolutionaries attempted to grapple with both the possibilities and limitations of protest as they attempted to construct a democratic regime

Bill of rights · Constitution · Declaration · Democracy · Human rights · Oppression · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · European Political History Analysis · Gender Studies · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Law