The Federal Convention and the Constituent Assembly of 1789: a closer look

Introduction

The Estates General before 1789

Introduction

The convocation of the Estates of 1789

The question of executive structure in Philadelphia and Paris

The Constituante between the king's soldiers and the Parisian crowds

The constitutional function of the judiciary in the doctrine of the separation of powers in Versailles/Paris and Philadelphia

The two great fears of 1789

The veto issue in France and the United States

Writing the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

Separation of powers : bicameralism and royal veto

Equality, slavery, suffrage

Amending the Constitutions: Process and Substance

Linking the future : eligibility and amendments

Comparison of the French and American constitutional models : genesis and evolution

Conclusion