Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès : the essential political writings
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Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès : the essential political writings
(Studies in the history of political thought / edited by Terence Ball, Jörn Leonhard, Wyger Velema, v. 9)
Brill, c2014
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Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes occupies a prominent place within the history of political thought. He stands at the forefront of both the discourses on human rights and on democratic constitutionalism. And yet, because of his theory of the constituent power he holds a somewhat ambivalent reputation as an advocate of permanent revolution. This state of reception is largely due to the fact that the better part of his work has hitherto not been edited outside of France. The edition Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes: The Essential Political Writings proposes to fill out this desideratum. It seeks to portray Sieyes, against the backdrop of an enlarged textual corpus, as a moderate proponent of the constitutional State.
Table of Contents
Foreword ... ix
Note to the Reader ... xi
Acknowledgements ... xii
Introduction to Sieyes's Political Theory ... 1
Oliver W. Lembcke and Florian Weber
1 What Is the Third Estate? ... 43
2 Reasoned Exposition of the Rights of Man and Citizen ... 118
3 Controversy between Mr. Paine and M. Emmanuel Sieyes ... 135
4 Of the Gains of Liberty in Society and in the Representative System ... 144
5 Sieyes's Views Concerning Several Articles of Sections IV and V of the Draft Constitution [First Thermidorian Intervention] .... 152
6 The Opinion of Sieyes Concerning the Tasks and Organization of the Constitutional Jury, Submitted on the Second Thermidor [Second Thermidorian Intervention] ... 170
7 Constitutional Observations ... 186
Bibliography ... 195
Index ... 202
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