Corsican Constitution

1755 constitution of the Corsican Republic

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Preamble of the Corsican Constitution in Corsican, French, English and Italian

The first Corsican Constitution was drawn up in 1755 for the short-lived Corsican Republic independent from Genoa beginning in 1755, and remained in force until the annexation of Corsica by France in 1769. It was written in Tuscan Italian, the language of elite Corsican culture at the time.[1]

It was drafted by Pasquale Paoli, and inspired by Jean-Jacques Rousseau who, commissioned by the Corsicans, in 1763 wrote Projet de constitution pour la Corse.[2]

The second Corsican Constitution was drawn up in 1794 for the short-lived (1794–96) Anglo-Corsican Kingdom and introduced suffrage for all property owners. It was considered a highly democratic constitution for its time.

Linda Colley credits Paoli with writing the first written constitution of a nation state.[3]

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1. ^ Tufi, Stefania; Blackwood, Robert J. (2016-04-29). The Linguistic Landscape of the Mediterranean: French and Italian Coastal Cities. Springer. ISBN 978-1-137-31456-7.
2. ^ Carrington, Dorothy (July 1973). "The Corsican constitution of Pasquale Paoli (1755–1769)". The English Historical Review. 88 (348): 481–503\. doi:10.1093/ehr/lxxxviii.cccxlviii.481. JSTOR 564654.481-503&rft.date=1973-07&rft_id=info:doi/10.1093/ehr/lxxxviii.cccxlviii.481&rft_id=https://www.jstor.org/stable/564654#id-name=JSTOR&rft.aulast=Carrington&rft.aufirst=Dorothy&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Corsican+Constitution" class="Z3988">
3. ^ Linda Colley (2021). The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World. Profile Books. p. 19\. ISBN 9781846684975.

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