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The Declaration of the Rights of Man!

The Declaration of the Rights of Man!. By: Katelyn Diaz & Carly Harnish. Why this document was important to the citizens of France. “It was a new vision of government which protection of natural rights replaces the will of the King as the justification for authority” (chnm.gov)

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The Declaration of the Rights of Man!

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  1. The Declaration of the Rights of Man! By: Katelyn Diaz & Carly Harnish

  2. Why this document was important to the citizens of France.. • “It was a new vision of government which protection of natural rights replaces the will of the King as the justification for authority” (chnm.gov) • Effects of the King • They were worried that the king might be stalling for a sinister reason. • Prevented abuses by the kind of administration. • Rights: • Equality for only men not women. • An office was opened to the people (only men). • Preserve the rights of being free and equal. • Guaranteed basic liberties. • “All men are born and remain free and equal in rights.” (Gilbert)

  3. Importance to the citizens of France, continued. • Freedoms: • Political Freedoms • Freedom of speech and religion • The French wanted the French version to be even more restricted in its identification of human freedom.

  4. What the declaration was modeled after.. • First step towards writing a constitution. • The Declaration of Independence. • It gave rights to men but not women. • American Bill of Rights. • “innocent until proven guilty, equality of all citizens under the laws” (Arnold). • The Declaration made no provision for equality between men & women. • Abolition to Feudally was effected.

  5. How the declaration was different from the documents it was modeled after.. • It depended on the king’s will and his allowance of a historic order that decided privileges according to rank and status. • French leaders expected the new rights they had spoken would work within the outline of the constitutional monarchy. • In that system the king would still be the head of state • One of his duties would be to authorize the Assembly’s major statement and legislation. • The deputies wanted Louis to give his official approval, so they presented the document on October 2, 1789.

  6. Ideas that were greatly influenced.. • Enlightenment thinkers: • Montesquieu • Separation of powers. • Jean-Jacques Rousseau • General Wills of States. • Voltaire • The ideas that the individual must be safeguarded against judicial action. • Virginia Declaration of Rights. • “On the other hand, the declaration is also explicable as an attack on the pre-Revolutionary monarchial regime” (“Rights of Man).

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