The Age of the Democratic Revolution. A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800

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  1. The Brabant Declaration of Independence, 1789 806

  2. The Geneva Edict of Pacification, 1782 807

  3. The Canada Act, 1791 808

  4. The Constitutions of the United States, 1787, and
    of Pennsylvania, 1790 808

  5. The French Constitution of 1789– 1791 809


IV. The Virginia Declaration of Rights of 1776, and the
French Declaration of Rights of 1789 811

V. “Democratic” and “Bourgeois” Characteristics in the
French Constitution of 1791: Property Qualifications
in France, Britain, and America 815

Index 821

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