The Political Science Post | Winter 2019 | 1 Table of Contents
THE POLITICAL WINTER 2019 SCIENCE POST Newsletter of the BYU Political Science Department GOVERNANCE, another rebellion erupted on July 1794, was a period of far-reaching 14, 1789 when a mob stormed a social and political upheaval the REASON AND Paris prison called the Bastille, a impact of which still reverberates GLOBAL DEMOCRACY: symbol of royal power. around the world today. THE LEGACY OF THE The culmination of the radical FRENCH REVOLUTION The French Revolution would last phase was a revolutionary idea of much longer than the American “human rights” as written in the During the spring and summer Revolution, in part because it was “Declaration of the Rights of Man of 1789, the world learned of not an uprising of a few million and Citizen,” drafted by General the successful culmination of colonials on the periphery of Marqus de Lafayette, on casual the American Revolution—the civilization, but a cataclysm at the talk with Thomas Jefferson, Abbé implementation of the American heart of civilization, and some Sieyes and Honore Mirabeau, and Constitution when George say it ended only with the Third adopted by the French Assembly Washington was inaugurated as the French Republic in 1870, 81 years on August 26, 1789. The political Republic’s first president on April after the storming of the Bastille. principals espoused by the 30, 1789, in New York City. Half a The principal radical phase of the Declaration include basic human world away, in the heart of Europe, French Revolution, from 1789 until [CONTINUED ON PAGE 14] THE POLITICAL SCIENCE POST | WINTER 2019 | 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS The BYU Department of Political 3 EVENTS & Science, consistent with the aims of PROGRAMS a BYU education, intends to foster Read about the recent events on and “Lifelong Learning and Service.” off BYU campus We hope to provide our alumni 9 PEOPLE with intelligent, thoughtful and Spotlights on students, professors, sophisticated analysis of important and alumni alike.
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