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A preliminary to the constitution. An Acknowledgement and Explanatory display of the rights of Men and Citizens. Read the 20th & 21st July, 1789, in the committee of the constitution

1790-03 Subjects: Human rights, Law, Politics and government Forms: Article in periodical, Legislative materials Translation Status: Integral English Boston

Authors of source text

Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès

Contributions

Anonymous (269): translator
Ezra Weld: publisher
William Greenough: publisher

Related resources

is part of: Massachusetts Magazine: or, Monthly Museum of Knowledge and Rational Entertainment
is translation of: Préliminaire de la Constitution française, reconnaissance et exposition raisonnée des droits de l'homme & du citoyen has translation

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Senate House

Notes

This translation of Abbe Sieyes' summary of the key points of the draft constitutional document, which was presented to the Constitutional Committee in July 1789, includes a preface and explanatory notes by the anonymous translator. It appeared alongside other documents published by the Massachusets Magazine during this period, in the context of its engagement with French philosophy and radicalism. These included the serialization of Murray Judith Sargent's [Constantia] 'On the Equality of the Sexes', written much earlier in 1779.