THE CONCEPT OF LIBERTY, EQUALITY & FRATERNITY
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Author(s):
DR. REKHA
Vol - 8, Issue- 4 ,
Page(s) : 138 - 143
(2017 )
DOI : https://doi.org/10.32804/IRJMSH
Abstract
The triad "liberty, equality, fraternity" became popular with the French Revolution. Robespierre proposed in 1790 that it should be written in National Guard uniforms and in all flags. In 1848 this motto was defined in the French constitution as constituting a principle of the republic; it appears in the constitutions of 1946 and 1958. It had several variations, such as "unity, strength, virtue" used in Masonic lodges, or "liberty, security, property," "liberty, unity, equality" etc. During the Nazi occupation it was replaced by "work, family, fatherland". But it is the form known today that became the French motto, adopted also in other countries, such as in the Constitution of India of 1950.
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