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**4A. its contribution to modern nationalism and its relationship to totalitarianism**: It made an effort. For one the French revolution resulted in the monarchy to still be a monarchy, but with limited power. The people of France can be more involved in the country's ways (eg. laws, rights).
 * Summarize the major effects of the French Revolution: **

By reducing the power of the monarchy, the modern nationalism was coming into view.

The French Revolution invented modern revolution; the idea that humans can transform the world according to a plan. So as a central place in the study of the social sciences. It ushered in modernity by destroying the foundations of the “ Old Regime”— absolutist politics, legal inequality, a feudal economy (characterized by guilds, manorialism and serfdom) an alliance of church and state, and created a vision for a new moral universe: that sovereignty resides in nations.

The French Revolt mas a major contributor to nationalism because it resulted in a constitution, and the Declaration Of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, which called for liberty, fraternity, and equality.

The result of the revolution was the many declarations and rights documents such as the Declaration of the rights of man and other aspects such as fraternity and equality which were transfered to Haiti.

Civil disorder became a common scene after the storming of the Bastille in 1789. After a few years the French intellectuals who rode the banner of liberalism as the forerunners of the revolution issued the Declaration of the Rights of Man. Through this document they aimed at shifting the authority of issuing basic human rights from the Church, or God so to say, to the state government. The King’s crown that was a symbol of Catholic Christianity was replaced with a red liberty cap that represented the state as authority. The French Revolution paved the way for the modern nation-state. Across Europe radical intellectuals questioned the old monarchial order and encouraged the development of a popular nationalism committed to re-drawing the political map of the continent.

The result of this is the many documents sent out like the agreement in equality in Haiti.
**4B. the abolition of theocratic absolutism in France**: It reduced the power of the monarchy. He no longer can veto everything he hates. Now the monarchy is a limited monarchy, so the monarchy has most of the veto power. But the parilment has some say into the veto or laws that are made. The king was no longer thought to be the divine leader of France's government. The king and queen were both beheaded to show that the absolutist rule has been removed. The popularity of absolute monarchy declined after the French Revolution. The french revolution changed alot of frances goverment, everything revolved around a council.

Before the French Revolution, France was a place of inequality. The government changed a lot after the revolution, churches and courts of law were changed to follow a system of government that was elected by people in town representing their council.

The abolition of theocratic absolutism in France resulted after the National Assembly met and they decided to sell all of the church lands. This helped France's failing economy because they were able to use some of that money to help pay off their debt.

**4C. the abolition of remaining feudal restrictions and obligations**: Historians agree that the Viscount de Noailles and the Duke d'Aiguillon proposed the redemption and consequent abolition of feudal rights and the suppression of personal servitude, as well as of the various privileges of the nobility. Because of the French revolution the government with the 3 different estates was taken out and parliament replaced it with democracy.

The French Revolution ended Feudalism and helped to unify France and it also increased the power off the National state.

**4D. its support for the ideas of popular sovereignty, religious tolerance, and legal equality**: Rousseau argues that sovereignty (or the power to make the laws) should be in the hands of the people, he also makes a sharp distinction between the sovereign and the government. The government is composed of magistrates, charged with implementing and enforcing the general will. Ideally decided on by direct democracy in an assembly. Under a monarchy, however, the real sovereign is still the law. Rousseau was opposed to the idea that the people should exercise sovereignty by a representative assembly.

People in Europe demanded equal rights and taxes among all the classes, and that all people should have religious, economic, and political freedom.

The French National Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of Man which had some similarities to the American Declaration of Independence.

The primary cause of the revolution was the disputes over the peoples' differing ideas of reform

After the revolution the natural rights of man were considered much more and so they gave more equal rights to everyone.

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