Generative Principle of Political Constitutions
Generative Principle of Political Constitutions Joseph de Maistre had no doubt that the root causes of the French Revolution were intellectual and ideological. He echoed Voltaire's boast that "books…
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Generative Principle of Political Constitutions
Joseph de Maistre had no doubt that the root causes of the French Revolution were intellectual and ideological. He echoed Voltaire's boast that "books did it all." The philosophers of the Enlightenment were the architects of the new regimes; and the shadow between revolutionary idea and social reality could be traced directly to a fatal flaw in their thought.De Maistre asserts that society is the product, not of men's conscious decision, but of their instinctive makeup. The degeneration of its first immense hopes into the Reign of Terror was not the result of a ruthless competition for power or of prospects of war.
Since government is in this sense natural, it can not legitimately be denied, revoked, or even disobeyed by the people. Both history and primitive societies illustrate men's gravitation toward some form of communal life. Sovereignty is not the product of the