aug 26, 1789 - Declaration of the Rights of Man

Description:

- written **August 1789, early phase of the French Revolution**
- drafted by the **National Constituent Assembly**
- Strongly influenced by:
- Enlightenment ideas (Rousseau, Montesquieu).
- American Revolution and the U.S. Declaration of Independence.


Aimed to create a new political system based on equality, individual rights, and popular sovereignty, replacing the inequalities of the Ancien Régime

natural rights:
- liberty
- property
- security
- resistance from oppression

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