The Age of the Democratic Revolution. A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800
278 Chapter XI If these events prove anything, it is perhaps that no purely middle- class or “bourgeois” revolution could succee ...
Democrats and Aristocrats 279 destroy the English constitution, said Burke, whose whole conservative philosophy was mapped out i ...
CHAPTER XII THE LIMITATIONS OF ENLIGHTENED DESPOTISM Every subject should expect security and protection from his Sovereign, whi ...
Limitations of Enlightened Despotism 281 important political class, and to this class royal governments had to make conces- sion ...
282 Chapter XII The name of Joseph II, “the revolutionary Emperor,” has become a byword for colossal failure. He was not inexper ...
Limitations of Enlightened Despotism 283 the Catholic Church. Joseph in these actions was typical of the day, when the prestige ...
284 Chapter XII The pope, dismayed, and fearing a complete schism, made a trip to Vienna. He obtained next to nothing from Josep ...
Limitations of Enlightened Despotism 285 “The peasant as a property- owner,” declared one of the estate- assemblies, “will take ...
286 Chapter XII economic development. Such a tax, he observed in 1783, with “no difference be- tween the possessions of men, to ...
Limitations of Enlightened Despotism 287 awareness, and attention to public affairs were in large measure to be found, out- side ...
288 Chapter XII the empire; but they were not numerous enough, nor did they enjoy popular ac- ceptance. There was a general repu ...
Limitations of Enlightened Despotism 289 innovation. On the one hand there was the crown, with a program of centraliza- tion, lo ...
290 Chapter XII that the sovereign drew authority from his people or peoples, that he had only such rightful powers as they had ...
Limitations of Enlightened Despotism 291 stitutional liberties. He offered reconciliation to the estates of Belgium. He invited ...
292 Chapter XII namely, the right to make a new contract with each King at the time of his corona- tion. Since Joseph II had ref ...
Limitations of Enlightened Despotism 293 At Milan, for example, Leopold restored the Senate and the Council of Sixty which Josep ...
294 Chapter XII from two districts actually reached the city, where of course they could accomplish nothing. In Transylvania, th ...
Limitations of Enlightened Despotism 295 barriers, and class sympathies stronger than national sympathies, among the lower class ...
296 Chapter XII The spirit shown in this document and in others, more the spirit of a Mau Mau rebellion than of the French peasa ...
Limitations of Enlightened Despotism 297 The agricultural worker was said to be so lacking in self- respect, honor, civilized se ...
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