Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

the elite. Rousseau in The Social Contract (1769) argued against the divine rights of sovereigns and that only the people have the right to legislate., while in Diderot’s Encyclopaedia also insisted that “the good of the people must be the great purpose of the government” (Crocker, 144) under the definition of government. Before the Revolution, French society was grounded in the idea of privilege or an inequality of rights.…

revolutionaries planned for a new France and a new citizen to live within it, and had many goals in their new order. This new life would be a drastic change from the old regime they had lived under and would be widely accepted by the people, or so the revolutionaries desired it to be. Revolutionaries…

Susan B. Anthony was a suffragist and a pioneer for women’s rights. She was a founder of Daughters of Temperance, Women’s Loyal League and The National Women’s Suffrage Association. Anthony delivers a Stump Speech on voting rights in all 29 postal districts of Monroe County, New York in 1872, after being convicted of voting illegally in the 1872 presidential election. During her speech, she focuses on the equal voting rights for women at the ballot just as men have. The purpose of the speech was…

Enlightenment ideas were highly embodied in the declaration of United State Independence. The major enlightenment ideas highlighted that each and every citizen has the right to reason, autonomy, and the notion that all human beings are equal by nature. In addition, enlightenment ideas stated that the government and religion are separate. In this essay, I will highlight how the different enlightenment ideas were embodied in the declaration of Independence in the United State of America.…

during the 18th century. Many philosophers fueled this intellectual and philosophical movement, thus initiating the French Revolution. The philosophers Jean-Jacque Rousseau, John Locke and Voltaire kindled inspiration in french citizens to act on the ideas of equal rights, freedom of religion, and fair judgment. It can be said that John Locke ideas had the greatest effects on the revolution because his ideas were adapted by other philosophers and grown upon. John Locke had a profound influence…

fund fire departments, police departments or hospitals. There would be no help. This anarchy would exist because the citizens would not accept the law’s jurisdiction over them. To have peace and prosperity we must have some law. We allow the Law to have jurisdiction over us based on certain grounds such as protection, preserving our rights and avoiding anarchy. However, some citizens believe that the Law is too restrictive and intruding in their lifes. People argue that the laws could be too…

at its origin in Europe the Enlightenment gave citizens stuck in unfair systems of government new ways to think. As History.com once said ,(2016), “Participants thought they were illuminating human intellect and culture after the “dark” middle ages.” (p. 2). Ideals such as equality and the Enlightenment itself spread globally influencing critical founding documents of multiple countries including the U.S Constitution, Declaration of the Rights of Man, and the Haitian Constitution of 1801.…

contemporary conception of human rights include from the medieval period, Thomas Aquinas, whose primary argument was that there were inconsistencies in the policies application in natural law and were unfair, and thus tested the validity of civil law. Aquinas argument was an extension of an extended view by Cicero and earlier that of Plato and Aristotle. The Magna Carta (1215) was a significant influence which led to the constitutional law of today. The “human rights” that are within the “Great…

its citizens, this is what they would want the public to believe. Although the rights of men appear to be the main focus of two of the documents, the Declaration of Independence will rarely mention rights, and the other two documents give vague descriptions of rights. Some rights may be interpreted to have a deeper meaning, or simply no meaning at all when looked at from a less straightforward point of view. First world countries will create rights under the pretense of care for their citizens,…

Equality became known and most people were seen as equal after The Declaration of Independence was made. This declaration supports "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal" (The Declaration of Independence Doc. 10). The thoughts during the Dark Ages now seemed to be ridiculous. Thomas Paine was one of the many who thought this and claimed "There is something exceedingly…