human
to him cannot be regarded as absolute. The subjects recognized that they were _real proprietors_, and that it was _their_ money that was demanded. Those who had hitherto been subjects attained the consciousness that they were _proprietors_. Bailly depicts this in a few words:
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If you cannot dispose of my property without my assent, how much less can you of my person, of all that concerns my mental and social position? All this is my property, like the piece of land that I till; and I have a right, an interest, to make the laws myself. Bailly's words sound, certainly, as if _every one_ was a proprietor now. However, instead of the government, instead of the prince, the--_nation_ now became proprietor and master. From this time on the ideal is spoken of as--
human
--
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On July 16 this same Mirabeau exclaims:
human
Is not the people the source of all _power_? The source, therefore, of all right, and the source of all--power![68] By the way, here the substance of
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becomes visible; it is--_power_.
human
He who has power has right.
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only passed over to the commonalty. For the commonalty was now called the
human
gpt
Into the hands of the nation all _prerogatives_ were given back. Thereby they ceased to be
human
:[69] they became
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[70] From this time on the nation demands tithes, compulsory services; it has inherited the lord's court, the rights of vert and venison, the--serfs. The night of August 4 was the death-night of privileges or
human
(cities, communes, boards of magistrates, were also privileged, furnished with prerogatives and seigniorial rights), and ended with the new morning of
gpt
the
human
the
gpt
had been a paltry monarch compared with this new monarch, the
human
This _monarchy_ was a thousand times severer, stricter, and more consistent. Against the new monarch there was no longer any right, any privilege at all; how limited the
gpt
of the _ancien régime_ looks in comparison! The Revolution effected the transformation of _limited monarchy_ into _absolute monarchy_. From this time on every right that is not conferred by this monarch is an
human
; but every prerogative that he bestows, a