Introduction
Translators' Note
Chronology
Contribution to the Correction of the Public's Judgments on the French Revolution
Book One: On Judging the Legitimacy of a Revolution
Preface
Introduction
1. Does a People Actually Have the Right to Change Its Constitution?
2. Sketch of the Further Course of the Examination
3. Is the Right to Change the Constitution Alienable through the Contract of All with All?
4. On Privileged Classes in General, in Relation to the Right of Changing the State
5. On the Aristocracy in Particular, in Relation to the Right of Constitutional Change
6. On the Church, in Relation to the Right of Constitutional Change
Afterword
Appendix One: Correspondence
Appendix Two: Review by Friedrich von Gentz
Glossary
Index
Jeffrey Church is Professor of Political Science at the University of Houston. His books include Infinite Autonomy: The Divided Individual in the Political Thought of G. W. F. Hegel and Friedrich Nietzsche. Anna Marisa Schön is a PhD candidate in Political Science at the University of Houston.