Founding moment of the rights. Notes about the declaration of the rights of man and of the citizen of 1798

Authors

  • Miguel Carbonell Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.esde.5206

Keywords:

history, functions and content of the Declaration on the Rights of Man and Citizen of 1789, Constitutional State, French Revolution

Abstract

One of the most brilliant moments of what has been called the “opening hour” of the constitutional State is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen of 1789, adopted by the French National Assembly on August 26 of 1789. This essay highlights its historic importance reminding its development, its functions -critical, legitimizing, constitutive and pedagogical- and its contents, emphasizing some of the most important aspects of the text (Preamble and articles 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 16). It concludes synthesizing the elements that the Declaration brings to the “Constitutional State” from the analysis of Peter Häberle.
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Author Biography

Miguel Carbonell, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Abogado de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Especialista en Derecho Constitucional y Ciencia Política del Centro de Estudios Constitucionales de Madrid. Doctor en Derecho de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Profesor de la Facultad de Derecho e investigador del Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas de la UNAM.

Published

2009-12-05

How to Cite

Carbonell, M. (2009). Founding moment of the rights. Notes about the declaration of the rights of man and of the citizen of 1798. Estudios De Derecho, 66(148), 59–79. https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.esde.5206