Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
인간과 시민의 권리 선언
Declaration of a preamble and seventeen articles adopted by the French National Constituent Assembly on 26 August 1789, proclaiming the natural, inalienable rights of man. It was attached as the preamble of the Constitution of 1791 and still has constitutional force in France today.
In depth
The preamble holds that ignorance, neglect or contempt of the rights of man are the sole causes of public misfortune and governmental corruption, and declares the rights so that legislative and executive acts may be compared at every moment with the aim of every political institution. Lafayette wrote the first draft, and most of the final text came from Sieyès. When it was written its rights were granted only to men, and it did not abolish slavery in the French colonies. Olympe de Gouges's Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen (1791) borrowed its seventeen-article form. The Constitution of 1793 and the Constitution of the Year III each opened with their own declaration of rights, so the 1789 text should be kept apart from the 1793 declaration of the same name.
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- /commulingo/docs/france-constitutions-and-republic-1791-1793
- /commulingo/docs/france-directoire-consulat-1795-1799