Comparing The Declaration Of The Rights Of Man And The Bill Of Rights

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen and the Bill of Rights are extremely similar in purpose and audience. Each document is directed towards the citizenry of the respective country, and both seek to provide the common people with specific expectations and guarantees of the manner in which they must be treated by the law and government. These two documents are effectively the same. Despite the slightly different ideals that each advance, each is focused on creating guarantees of basic human rights which apply to all citizens. In fact, these documents are so closely related in nature, that they are widely regarded as the foundation of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In contrast to the broad audience of the other documents, the Declaration of Independence is specifically written to King George and the Parliament of England. Furthermore, the Declaration of Independence is not intended to …show more content…
Thus, revolutionaries are unable to effectively come together with common purpose against an enemy which is not clearly defined. Thus, as the French Revolutionary war progresses, revolutionaries continually lack common purpose and, devolve their efforts into disorganized retaliation against the affluent people of France. Without a common enemy, revolutionaries act without the consent of their counterparts. Furthermore, their efforts are somewhat disconnected from the efforts of their allies. Disorganization and disunity leads to effective anarchy which causes the war to take countless lives while doing very little to progress the ideals on which the revolution was originally founded. As little progress is made, and as severe bloodshed and anguish become ever more prevalent in France, the revolutionaries fail to instill a government based on enlightenment ideals. Thus, the French Revolution ends in complete