The Intellectual Origins Of The Belgian Revolution

The Intellectual Origins Of The Belgian Revolution
Chapter 1. Introduction. Part I: Liberals. Chapter 2. Political Debates in the Wake of the Declaration of the Constitution: The Legitimacy Problem and the Origins of a Liberal Opposition. Chapter 3. Opposition against National Uniformity and for Limited Government. Chapter 4. Monarchical Government, Opposition and a Divided Political Nation. Part II: Catholics. Chapter 5. Political Catholicism in the Southern Netherlands between the Old Regime and the Restoration, 17871815. Chapter 6. Ancient and Modern Rights: Continuity and Discontinuity in Catholic Political Thought, 18141830. PART III: Revolutionaries. Chapter 7. A Union of Catholicism and Liberalism. Chapter 8. The Reception of French Catholic Philosophy within Belgian Catholicism: Towards a New Intellectual Matrix. Chapter 9. Towards Belgian Nationalism and a National Revolution. Chapter 10. The Belgian Constitution and PostRevolutionary Politics in the Context of the History of Political Thought. Index