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The study traces the political origins and development of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the first written French constitution, and follows the political movement that culminated in abolition of monarchy and adoption of a republican executive. It examines intellectual influences, comparative references to foreign constitutional examples, and the debates and drafts produced within the constitutional assemblies, using contemporaneous writings and parliamentary records to reconstruct how principles, institutional choices, and partisan conflicts shaped the founding documents.
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