Wednesday, October 13, 2010
The Reign of Terror
During the Reign of Terror, Robespierre suspended the newly granted rights of the citizens to protect the new republic in France from threats. These threats included foreign armies trying to invade France to crush the revolution, as well as counterrevolutionary threats from within France. Do you think the methods Robespierre used during the Terror helped or hurt the revolution? In a time of great distress, do you think a government should have the right to suspend the rights of citizens to protect the well-being of the country, like Robespierre did?
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I think that it hurt the revolution because it turned all the citizens agenst eachother and they where losing more people to help fight the revolution agenst the other countries (prussia,ect.).
ReplyDeleteNo because then the country itself would be safe, but everything inside would be chaos; or way more chaotic than before.
I think that taking away the rights helped the revolution in the long run. However, it was a quite risky move because it may have caused more of a revolt among the people. Many people were still on the mind set of the revolution so the country could have faced even more of what they were going through. Luckily for Robespierre, most of France just wanted the revolution over and done with so they trusted him to make it all better. It's good for him that all of the new power given to the government actually stopped the threats from other countries or else Robespierre would have been in deep trouble.
ReplyDeleteI feal that Robespierre was right in the fact to suspend the gifts of the revolution, but i still think that he went over board with all the murders and accusations. Whatthey should have done is just block all outside comunication therefore if there were spys in france there was no way they could report back to other countries. I also think that if he sided with the church, the church might have been able to help the revolution with their emense power. All in all Robespierre ruined a good idea.
ReplyDeleteI think that the methods Robespierre used hurt the revolution in a couple of ways. For one, he turned many of the citizens against each other making France even more chaotic than in already was. Secondly, he directed his attention more to killing his own citizens who weren't for the revolution, than trying to band them together to defeated the other countries.
ReplyDeleteAs for the government having the right to take away the rights of citizens, i dont think it was a good idea. Clearly having the power to do that went to Robespierre's head, which got him killed eventually. No one person should be able to change thousands of peoples lives in one decision that they basically make by themselves.
I think that the suspension of rights both helped and hurt the revolution. While it helped the revolution by killing some of those who might try to stop it, it also harmed innocent people. The rampant executions likely made citizens resentful and afraid of the new government. Governments are supposed to hold power by earning the people's support, not by making everyone too afraid to try to stop it.
ReplyDeleteAbout the government being able to suspend rights, it might be good to do so under certain circumstances or to a limited degree, but not as much as they did during the revolution. Having that much power over people could cause corruption or make people get accused for no reason because others would be so used to looking for guilt in meaningless things they would assume harmful and illogical things without thinking at all.
i think that it actually helped the revolution. despite the fact that it was incredibly bloody, it did remove enemies of the revolution and made people support the revolution, whether they want to or not. it pushed foward the revolution, though not prettily. "it is better to be feared than loved"- machiavelli
ReplyDeleteI think that Robespierre's methods during the revolution were a bad idea for many reasons. Robespierre's methods killed many people and that was not needEd and many innocent people got killed. To me robespierrie did not have have the right to suspend the rights of the citizens because that is not only the decision for one person to make.
ReplyDeleteI think that Robpierreis methods where although inhumane despite what they would like to believe helped in the long run.A goverment should not have the right to take away the rights of citizens just for the well being of the country you have to also consider the well being of the citizens and not just take away all thier rights.
ReplyDeleteNo, i don't think Robespierre's methods were the best ideas. For one thing, some of the results of his methods were that some people turend against each other. I think his methods hurt the revolution very much. Another thing was that Robespierre was very focused on sentencing people to death, to the Guillotine. I also think that him taking away the rights of the citizen especially at this point in time, was a very bad thing to do.
ReplyDeletei think that this suspending the rights of the people both helped and hurt the revolution because it helped by getting rid and sustaining the people who rebelled. at the same time it hurt alot of innocent people and they shouldnt have been punished.sometimes i guess it would be nessisary to suspend the rights of the citizens in a time of great distress but they should consider that there might be rebellments from other angry innocent citizens
ReplyDeleteI think it hurt the revolution because Robespierre took many rights away from the people. Which turned many people against him and against each other. He was so focused on killing people and keeping them afraid of him. He also arrested and punished anyone who said anything negative about the revoltuion. He should have given the poeple at least a little more freedom.
ReplyDeleteI think it both helped and hurt the revolution. France was in a time of chaos and a strong leader needed to come to power to bring things back in order. Robespierre took that position of power, however i think he went about it the wrong way. I believe that the gov't should have the right to suspend but Robespierre instead of setting the revolution ahead, he set it back. He was more focused on making the people's heads role who were't in support of the revolution than protecting his country.
ReplyDeleteI think the things Robespierre did certainly contributed to the Revolution and definitely gave it its name, because of what Robespierre contributed, which was mainly a bad thing, I believe it neither helped nor hurt the revolution much, it just kind of added to it and made its place. Since he was causing people to live in terror of death if they were not fully enthusiastic or something alongside that about their current period of time they made in History, and there would be many heads cut off of people, including of important leaders. I do not think this was anything better or worse for the historical thing, it was just something big that happened in history and earned its name.
ReplyDeleteI think that suspending the rights of the people helped in someways. However in someways suspending the rights of the people hurt the revolution. People who went and did what they weren't supposed to got stopped. This is one thing that did help the revolution. However this wasn't fair to the people who did what they were supposed to. These innocent people didn't deserve having others suspend the right of them. During the revolution suspending the rights of people may have been a good thing to do at times. However others just use that to rebell against.
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