Corey Simms
Mrs. J
Modern History
March 19, 2015
Justified or Nahh
Bertrand Russell once said, “war does not determine who is right-only who is left.” A bloodshed event in modern European History, the French Revolution began in 1789 and ended in the late 1790s with the ascent of Napoleon Bonaparte. During this period, French citizens razed and redesigned their country’s political landscape, uprooting centuries-old institutions such as absolute monarchy and the feudal system. Like the American Revolution before it, the French
Revolution was influenced by enlightenment ideas, particularly the concepts of popular sovereignty and inalienable rights. Although it failed to achieve all of its goals and at times degenerated into a chaotic
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These are liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression.” (Dec. of Rights) This means the government should
provide security which is safety for the people when they’re stating a difference in opinion. For example, even the King and Queen, and Robespierre were not safe or protected from the guillotine. This article explains how people who disagree with the government should go unpunished. During the reign of terror people were punished for exercising their basic rights. The
Reign of Terror was unjustified and so were their methods.
The government used extreme methods during the reign of terror, and tried to change laws to support what they believed in. “Judgment of last resort: the local court has final say.
Therefore can be no appeal, even for a death by guillotine conviction.” (Letter from the vendee)
The government is trying to take away people’s rights, and kill whoever they claim not fit to live in their society. The government is trying to change the laws to justify killing the poor and people who disagree with them. This method goes in direct violation with the (Dec. of Rights).
For example, article 7 says “no person shall be accused, arrested, or imprisoned, except in cases
[allowed] by law.” Another example comes from the same source but article 9 “all person are held innocent until they shall have been declared guilty.” Judgment of last resort clearly violates everyone’s rights and therefore is unjustified. Louis XVI
. . has been said to occur ‘where no reasonable person would take the view adopted by the [trial] court,’ or when the court acts ‘without reference to any guiding rules or principles.’ It has also been said to exist when the ruling under consideration ‘appears to have been made on untenable grounds,’ when the ruling is ‘clearly against the logic and effect of facts and inferences before the court,’ when the ruling is ‘clearly untenable, unfairly depriving a litigant of a substantial right and denying a just result,’ when the ruling is ‘violative of fact and logic,’ or when it constitutes an ‘untenable judicial act that defies reason and works an
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