Concept of education

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What was the legacy of the French Revolution?

The basis of democracy: people as citizens with rights recognised by the state,popular sovereignty, i.E. Citizens' right to vote and to choose the representatives, the constitution as the fundamental law that stablished the rights and duties of citizens and rulers, equality before the law based on the legal code and an independent justice system, the organisation of state administration into provinces and town councils.
Political life and the press: political groups born during the revolution, citizens defended similar ideas and proposals form a group to participate in politics and have more influence in the Assambly, the clasification of political patrties: left- radicals, right- moderate.
Economic liberasation: freedom of trade and contract was implemented and trade unions to secure workers' right were prohibited, innternal customs charged taxes on goods and made trade difficult were ended, a new decimal system of measurement, the metric system.
Public education and culture: the state should be secular, with no official religion, religious freedom. Compulsory educaiton for all the citizens was cnsidered, the first state schools were founded.

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