Signed under pressure by the king before his captivity at Tuileries and preceding the drafting of the Civil Constitution of the Clergy, it was primarily written by Emmanuel Sieyes, though earlier drafts featured the work of Lafayette.
Devised after a period known as the "Great Fear," during which a resolution was passed to eliminate aristocratic privileges, this document states that only actions harmful to society can be proscribed by law, and that law must serve as an expression of the general will in the fifth and sixth of its seventeen articles. Two years after its release, Olympe de Gouges issued a feminist rebuttal to it. Signed under pressure by the king before his captivity at Tuileries and preceding the drafting of the Civil Constitution of the Clergy, it was primarily written by Emmanuel Sieyes, though earlier drafts featured the work of Lafayette. FTP, identify this document passed in 1789 by the National Assembly, the French Revolution's analog to the Declaration of Independence.
Devised after a period known as the "Great Fear," during which a resolution was passed to eliminate aristocratic privileges, this document states that only actions harmful to society can be proscribed by law, and that law must serve as an expression of the general will in the fifth and sixth of its seventeen articles.
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