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Euskal Herria Journal | A Basque Journal | Navarre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) |
 | | "For the maintenance of liberties, exemptions and privileges" is a saying that was constantly repeated, from Palais to Ustaritz, by the Basque influential classes of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and which has been interpreted by some historians as a demand for freedom and sovereignty for Basque institutions. |
 | | The Garat of Ustaritz brothers, considered as defensors of the "Basque institutions," played an important role in the constitutional work of the French Revolution and in the introduction of the new judicial and administrative system. |
 | | On the night of August 4th 1789, when all of the feudal privileges were abolished --happily for everyone including the Basque people-- but in which the Basque institutions were abolished at the same time, the Garat brothers took refuge in silence, which is not surprising if one considers the meaning and significance of liberalism. |
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