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The representatives of the French people, constituted as a National Assembly, and
considering that ignorance, neglect, or contempt of the rights of man are the sole
causes of public misfortunes and governmental corruption, have resolved to set forth
in a solemn declaration the natural, inalienable and sacred rights of man: so that by
being constantly present to all the members of the social body this declaration may
always remind them of their rights and duties; so that by being liable at every moment
to comparison with the aim of any and all political institutions the acts of the
legislative and executive powers may be the more fully respected; and so that by
being founded henceforward on simple and incontestable principles the demands of
the citizens may always tend toward maintaining the constitution and the general
welfare.
In consequence, the National Assembly recognizes and declares, in the presence
and under the auspices of the Supreme Being, the following rights of man and the
citizen:
1. Men are born and remain free and equal in rights. Social distinctions may be based
only on common utility.
2. The purpose of all political association is the preservation of the natural and
imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security, and
resistance to oppression.
3. The principle of all sovereignty rests essentially in the nation. No body and no
individual may exercise authority which does not emanate expressly from the nation.
4. Liberty consists in the ability to do whatever does not harm another; hence the
exercise of the natural rights of each man has no other limits than those which assure
to other members of society the enjoyment of the same rights. These limits can only
be determined by the law.
5. The law only has the right to prohibit those actions which are injurious to society.
[…]
6. The law is the expression of the general will. All citizens have the right to take
part, in person or by their representatives, in its formation. It must be the same for
everyone whether it protects or penalizes. All citizens being equal in its eyes are
equally admissible to all public dignities, offices, and employments, according to their
ability, and with no other distinction than that of their virtues and talents.
Source A: National Assembly of France, statement of rights, Declaration of
the Rights of Man and Citizen, August 26, 1789
7. No man may be indicted, arrested, or detained except in cases determined by the
law and according to the forms which it has prescribed. Those who seek, expedite,
execute, or cause to be executed arbitrary orders should be punished [...]
8. Only strictly and obviously necessary punishments may be established by the law,
and no one may be punished except by virtue of a law established and promulgated
before the time of the offense, and legally applied.
9. Every man being presumed innocent until judged guilty […]
10. No one should be disturbed for his opinions, even in religion […]
11. The free communication of thoughts and opinions is one of the most precious of
the rights of man. Every citizen may therefore speak, write, and print freely, if he
accepts his own responsibility for any abuse of this liberty in the cases set by the
law.
12. The safeguard of the rights of man and the citizen requires public powers. These
powers are therefore instituted for the advantage of all, and not for the private benefit
of those to whom they are entrusted.
13. For maintenance of public authority and for expenses of administration, common
taxation is indispensable. It should be apportioned equally among all the citizens
according to their capacity to pay.
14. All citizens have the right, by themselves or through their representatives, to
have demonstrated to them the necessity of public taxes, to consent to them freely,
to follow the use made of the proceeds, and to determine the means of
apportionment, assessment, and collection, and the duration of them.
[…]
16. Any society in which the guarantee of rights is not assured or the separation of
powers not settled has no constitution.
17. Property being an inviolable and sacred right, no one may be deprived of it except
when public necessity […]
From The French Revolution and Human Rights: A Brief Documentary History,
translated, edited, and with an introduction by Lynn Hunt. Copyright © 1996.
Reprinted by permission of Bedford/St. Martin’s.


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1.)❑how the relationship between the French people an the king changed in the early stages of the Revolution.
2.)❑How this document embodied the French Revolution ideas of liberty, equality, and fraternity

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