El centro que se escurre: la moderación  en los escritos del Grupo de Coppet  (Madame de Staël, Jacques Necker,  y Benjamin Constant)

Aurelian Craiutu

doi:10.48162/rev.100.011

The Elusive Center: Moderation in the Writings of the Coppet Group (Madame de Staël, Jacques Necker, and Benjamin Constant)

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Aurelian Craiutu Indiana University Bloomington https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6795-1842

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https://doi.org/10.48162/rev.100.011

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This essay examines Madame de Staël, Necker, and Constant’s analyses of the legacy of the French Revolution and the difficulty of building free government in post–revolutionary France. I draw on Necker’s Essay on the True Principles of Executive Power in Great States (1792) and On the French Revolution (1796), Staël’s Considerations on the Principal Events of the French Revolution (1818), On the Current Circumstances Which Can End the Revolution (1798), Constant’s Fragments from an Abandoned Work on the Possibility of a Republican Constitution in a Great State (1802) and Principles of Politics (1806 and 1815). Special attention is paid to Necker’s theory of the intertwining of powers and the preeminence of the executive power as well as to Constant’s concept of neutral power, and the theory of “complex sovereignty”.

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2023-11-16

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Craiutu, A. (2023). The Elusive Center: Moderation in the Writings of the Coppet Group (Madame de Staël, Jacques Necker, and Benjamin Constant). República Y Derecho, 9(9), 1–34. https://doi.org/10.48162/rev.100.011

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Vol. 9 No. 9 (2024): Dossier: “Political liberalism. From Benjamin Constant to the present day”

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