The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-03-13

u,irio an nnt,osonbic M humanitarian pre-
,.nsions M nodloy would not no SO far as to
ox,hatt Tho absencc NJ nxioms similar to those
$500 In tho Declaration NJ the Rights OF Man
=. 10 ,ho CONSTITUTION NJ ls4s ia tho very thing
,n,,.n ,os Ivan Tho ,xis,ing system n durability
M, oniovod NV III, repimcs initiated by those
irstrnmen,s. II ia pronounced, however, GER
81, ,,o, ,ho circumstances which moved tho
N.,tona, Asecmb,v IN con6ne itself to
Tho or,on,zotion of tho public powers,
n,i,bont ,hcore,icsl dissertations on doc.
tr,nc have In their devolopmcnt. preserved
th, PROSTITUTION of 1874. which has lasted to
Tho end NJ tho century with little notification
We must never lose sipht Of the fact that tho
,o,,tico, .tote NJ things which Mt present pre.
wills In France ia mt due to Republicans. but
,rhs,sts IN anita of tbem. The Constitution of
tho Third Renublic owes its origin. as Il owes
,,s duration IN the veokness Of purposo md tho
dissensions of tho monarchical party. Tho Ma.
t,onol AssembIv which established the republic
rvas not n Ronublicon body. The majority we're
nonarcbicol Int tho Lepitimists. Orlcanists,
and Ronnpnrtists composing It failed to
.orce. and the country being weary of an
ayovcdlv nrovisIonal state of things. tho
unenthusiastic Assembly at Versailles was
forced to confirm Marshal MS CHIEF
OF the State. with n republican Constitution
to guarantee the Septcnnate or Presiden-
tial term OF seven years. Hence tho debates
which preluded the passing OF the organic law
were unique in their characters: for. little as
they resemble discussions In the English iegis'
lature on constitutional changes. with their
grave references to historical prcccdents. they
departed also from French tradition. in that
they were conducted without classical allusion.
and without didac.ic thcoriZing. We are all
familiar with the pcdantic oXtravngances OF the
orators OF tho convention. family echoed by those
who aided Lamartine in making the Constitu-
ton of 1913; but tho National Assembly reared
the Third Republic without any inspiration
from Greek and Latin antiquity. and without
any proofs from tho Encyclopedias. The rcGi.
eide date Of tho 2lst OF January, when the bill
for tho organization OF public powers was re-
ported, though il raised the ire OF aged ioyalists
whose fathers had served Louis XVI, fniled to
call forth from Republicans the inapt but once
inevitable reference to Marcus Brutus. and NJ.
Jules Simon argued with sound philosophy. but
without a single specious quotation from tho
philosophers OF the last century. We should
berc mention that the Committee OF Thirty.
nominated Mt tn, end of 1873 to prepare the con-
utitutiona, laws, reported in 1878. contained
ucarcely any Republicans among its members.
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