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Jack Is Master in His Own House: The Triumph of the Nation

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The chapter discusses the tiny emulators of the French in Batavia (the Netherlands), Naples and two tiny principalities as they reveal the popular hostility of peoples other than the French to the very idea of rights for all. Their lesson was lost in the ferocious national chauvinism bred in the struggle between the only state to endorse universal rights and all others. This chapter discusses the tension between the new theory of universal rights, elaborated in different formulations from 1789 to 1793, and the practice of the new revolutionary polity. In the 1789 and 1793 declarations of the rights of man and the citizen, the revolutionaries espoused the belief that there was no contradiction between rights for citizens and rights for all. This was because “the people” was good. If the people assumed democratic control of a state then it would open its doors to all and help all others who wanted similar human rights to get them. This belief remained long after, in the notion of the open republic shared by France and the US which, in the famous lines of the New Colossus (Statue of Liberty) of 1883, proclaimed an open door to all the oppressed of the world.

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Davidson, A. (2012). Jack Is Master in His Own House: The Triumph of the Nation. In: The Immutable Laws of Mankind. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4183-6_5

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