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Excerpt from The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizens: A Contribution to Modern Constitutional History
The following essay has originated in connection with a larger work upon which I have been engaged for some time. May it assist in strengthening the conviction that the ideas expressed in the law of the modern state are to be comprehended not alone through the history of the literature and the development of the conceptions of right, but above all through that history of the institu tions themselves that stretches itself over the whole field of our civilized life!
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