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- public functions are necessarily temporary; they cannot be considered as distinctions or rewards, but as duties.
- the offenses of the representatives of the people and of its agents ought never to go unpunished. no one has the right to claim for himself more inviolability than other citizens.
- the right to present petitions to the depositories of the public authority cannot in any case be forbidden, suspended, nor limited.
- resistance to oppression is the consequence of the other rights of man.
- there is oppression against the social body when a single one of its members is oppressed: there is oppression against each member when the social body is oppressed.
- when the government violates the rights of the people, insurrection is for the people and for each portion of the people the most sacred of rights and the most indispensable of duties.”
document 2: the law of 22 prairial year ii (10 june 1794)
“liberty, equality, fraternity
the revolutionary tribunal shall divide itself into sections, composed of twelve members, to wit: three judges and nine jurors, which jurors may not pass judgment unless they are seven in number.
the revolutionary tribunal is instituted to punish the enemies of the people.
the enemies of the people are those who seek to destroy public liberty, either by force or by cunning.
the following are deemed enemies of the people: those who have instigated the reestablishment of monarchy, or have sought to disparage or dissolve the national convention and the revolutionary and republican government of which it is the center:
those who have betrayed the republic in the command of places and armies, or in any other military function, carried on correspondence with the enemies of the republic, labored to disrupt the provisioning or the service of the armies;
those who have sought to impede the provisioning of paris, or to create scarcity within the republic;
those who have supported the designs of the enemies of france, either by countenancing the sheltering and the impunity of conspirators and aristocracy, by persecuting and calumniating patriotism, by corrupting the mandataries of the people, or by abusing the principles of the revolution or the laws or measures of the government by false and perfidious applications;
those who have deceived the people or the representatives of the people, in order to lead them into undertakings contrary to the interests of liberty;
those who have sought to inspire discouragement, in order to favor the enterprises of the tyrants leagued against the republic;
those who have disseminated false news in order to divide or disturb the people;
The text contains legal and political concepts related to rights, public functions, and the definition of enemies of the people in a revolutionary context. The subfield of Law (under Social Science) is most appropriate as it deals with legal principles, rights, and judicial procedures described here.
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