Comparing The Declaration Of Rights Of Man And The French Republic

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Declaration of Rights of Man was a legal document enacted by the French National Assembly in 1789. Appealing to Enlightenment liberal principles, it explicitly guaranteed the civil rights such as the presumption of innocence, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion and protected “the natural, unalienable, and sacred rights of man” which were defined as “liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression” in article two. The value of freedom and democracy quickly spread to the entire world. Declaration of the Rights of Man also addressed the popular sovereignty, paying the way for the foundation of French Republic. However, only men were the subject of The Declaration of the Rights of Man, and women were