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The Charter proclaimed the equality of all Frenchmen, yet only a petty minority were given the right to participate in the government of the country. France was still in a political sense a land of privilege, only privilege was no longer based on birth but on fortune. Nevertheless, this was a more liberal form of government than she had ever had under Napoleon, and was the most liberal to be seen in Europe, outside of England. There was another set of provisions in this document of even greater... importance than those determining the future form of government. Provisions namely, that in which the civil rights of Frenchmen were concerning narrated. These provisions showed how much of the ng s work of the Revolution and of Napoleon the Bourbons were prepared to accept. They were intended to reassure the people 270 THE RESTORATION AND THE REVOLUTION 271 of France, who feared to see in the Restoration a loss of Hberties or rights which had become most precious to them. It was declared that all Frenchrhen were equal before the law, and thus the cardinal principle of the Revolution was preserved; that all were equally eligible to civil and military positions, that thus no class should monopolize public service, as had _ Recognition largely been the case of the work before the Revolu- °^ ^^e Revo- lution tion; that no one should be arrested or prosecuted save by due process of law, that thus the day of arbitrary im- prisonment was not to return; that there should be complete re- ligious freedom for all sects, al- though Roman Catholicism was declared to be the religion of the state; that the press should be free.
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