Although it was given in his last decade it does reflect in a more systematic way many of the preoccupations ofhis life and education. His ideas on liberty reflect the contrast that he draws between the liberty of the ancients and that of the moderns, the theme of a speech given in Paris in 1820. He was educated, in part, in Scotland at Edinburgh University where he studied the work of both political economists such as Adam Smith and common sense philosophers such as Dugald Stewart, an experience that was to play a major role in his account of liberty. He lived to become Napoleon's constitutional adviser during the Hundred Days (having been threatened with prison by Napoleon for his critique of his exercise of power before his exile on Elba) (.) and he died during the fall of the Orléanist Monarchy in 1830. Society/Constant/Plant: Constant experienced the French Revolution from first hand. Benjamin Constant on Society - Dictionary of Arguments Gaus I 387
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