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The Girondin constitutional project, presented to the French National Convention on 15 and 16 February 1793 by Nicolas de Caritat, formerly the Marquis de Condorcet, is composed of three parts:
- An Exposition of the Principles and Motives of the Constitutional Scheme, approx. 80 pages
- A Draft Declaration of the Natural, Civil, and Political Rights of Man, in 33 articles
- A Draft French Constitution, in 13 titles
The work was signed by the eight members of the Convention's Constitution Committee: Condorcet, Gensonné, Barrère, Barbaroux, Paine, Pétion, Vergniaud and Sieyès.[1]
- ^ Nicolas de Caritat. "Plan de Constitution présenté à la Convention nationale les 15 et 16 février 1793, l'an II de la République (Constitution girondine)", in Digithèque de matériaux juridiques et politiques by Jean-Pierre Maury, retrieved 4 November 2008