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Constitution reaffirms equal civil status

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Constitution reaffirms equal civil status

Sieyes, Emmanuel-Joseph · Paris · Abbe · Deputy and clergyman

The Constitution of 1791 consolidated a legal order built on citizenship rather than hereditary estates. Sieyes's constitutional ideas had helped articulate national sovereignty behind that transformation.

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