Liberty equality fraternity was a motto of the French Revolution. How did the revolution both support and violate this motto?

Answer 1

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789 defined Liberty in Article 4 as follow:

"Liberty consists of being able to do anything that does not harm others: thus, the exercise of the natural rights of every man or woman has no bounds other than those that guarantee other members of society the enjoyment of these same rights."

Equality, on the other hand, was defined by the 1789 Declaration as judicial equality (art. 6):

The law "must be the same for all, whether it protects or punishes. All citizens, being equal in its eyes, shall be equally eligible to all high offices, public positions and employments, according to their ability, and without other distinction than that of their virtues and talents." Fraternity was not in the original declaration but later added on. Fraternity is the practice of brotherhood. The identification of liberty and equality became problematic during the Jacobin period, when equality was redefined as equality of results, and not only judicial equality of rights

Answer 2

Stand together