USA HISTORY

MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800

THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Napoleon’s unified system of law
A
Civil code
B
Bill of Rights
C
Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen
D
Code inforcement
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Napoleonic Code, French Code Napoléon, French civil code enacted on March 21, 1804, and still extant, with revisions. It was the main influence on the 19th-century civil codes of most countries of continental Europe and Latin America.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Napoleonic Code (French: Code Napoléon, lit. “Code Napoleon"), officially the Civil Code of the French (French: Code civil des Français; simply referred to as Code civil), is the French civil code established during the French Consulate in 1804 and still in force, although frequently amended.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Napoleonic Code made the authority of men over their families stronger, deprived women of any individual rights, and reduced the rights of illegitimate children. All male citizens were also granted equal rights under the law and the right to religious dissent, but colonial slavery was reintroduced.

Detailed explanation-4: -Napoleon’s codes (1804) were a set of civil codes that had to be practised by French society. The aim of the code was to reform the French society, in areas such as family, property, civil procedure etc. They were the following: Established equality before the law.

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