USA HISTORY

MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800

THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What were the series of laws passed by Napoleon that stabilized and unified France?
A
Declaration of Rights of men
B
Napoleonic Code
C
Bill of Rights
D
Constitution
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: -After four years of debate and planning, French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte enacts a new legal framework for France, known as the “Napoleonic Code.” The civil code gave post-revolutionary France its first coherent set of laws concerning property, colonial affairs, the family and individual rights.

Detailed explanation-3: -He started as a believer passing the Napoleonic Code of laws based on the Values of the Enlightenment which made all citizens equal before the law, encouraged religious toleration, and made advancement based on merit not social class or birth.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Napoleonic Code is also called the ‘French Civil Code of 1804’ defined the concept of equality before the law and also secured the right to property. This code was generated to simplify all the laws and systematized into a single document. This Code was spread to the regions under French control.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.

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