Joseph-Marie de Maistre

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Joseph-Marie de Maistre was born in April 1, 1753 in Savoy, France and died in 1821. He was a French political philosopher considered teh leading philosophical opponent of the Enlightenment on Europe. He wrote at least 13 volumes of collected works; letters, diplomatic correspondence. It was designed to refute the principles of the French Revolution. His first major work was Considerations on France (1706) which argues that paper constitutions never will or have established rights for people. Also, most of his views were in "The Essay on the Generative Principle of Political Constitutions" (1809). His basic views were the constitution should not be written and the people should receive the rules over a large span of time.