USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Under the code all male citizens are equal: primogeniture, hereditary nobility, and class privileges are extinguished; civilian institutions are emancipated from ecclesiastical control; freedom of person, freedom of contract, and inviolability of private property are fundamental principles.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -The French writer Voltaire once complained that a man traveling across France would have to change laws as often as he changed horses. Determined to unify France into a strong modern nation, Napoleon pushed for a single set of written laws that applied to everyone. He appointed a commission to prepare a code of laws.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Code recognized the principles of civil liberty, equality before the law (although not for women in the same sense as for men), and the secular character of the state.

Detailed explanation-5: -The code removed all privileges based on birth, established equality before the law and secured the right to property, simplified, administrative divisions, abolished the feudal system and freed peasants from serfdom and manorial dues.