French Constitution of 1793

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The Constitution of 1793, Constitution of 24 June 1793 (French: "Acte constitutionnel du 24 juin 1793"), or Montagnard Constitution (French: "Constitution montagnarde") was the French Constitution which instated a Republic during the French Revolution. Following a referendum, it was ratified by the National Convention on June 24, 1793. Due to the external and internal state of war, legal dispositions of the Constitution were suspended on October 10, 1793.

The Constitution was inspired by the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789, to which it added several rights: it proclaimed the superiority of the popular sovereignty over national sovereignty; various economic and social rights (right of association, right to work and public assistance, right to public education; the right of rebellion (and duty to rebel when the government violates the right of the people); and the abolition of slavery.

It was eventually supplanted by the French Constitution of 1795, which established the Directory. The revolutionaries of 1848 were inspired by this constitution and that it passed into the ideological armory of the Third Republic (founded 1870). It represents a fundamental historical document, that contributed much to the later democratic institutions and developments.