Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen information
1789 document of the French Revolution
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, painted by Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier
One of the components of the
Constitutional block
(Bloc de constitutionnalité)
French Constitution of 1958
Preamble to the 1958 French Constitution
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
Preamble to the 1946 French Constitution
Fundamental principles recognized by the laws of the Republic
Charter for the Environment
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (French: Déclaration des droits de l'Homme et du citoyen de 1789), set by France's National Constituent Assembly in 1789, is a human civil rights document from the French Revolution.[1] Inspired by Enlightenment philosophers, the Declaration was a core statement of the values of the French Revolution and had a significant impact on the development of popular conceptions of individual liberty and democracy in Europe and worldwide.[2]
The Declaration was initially drafted by Marquis de Lafayette, with assistance from Thomas Jefferson, but the majority of the final draft came from Abbé Sieyès.[3] Influenced by the doctrine of natural right, human rights are held to be universal: valid at all times and in every place. It became the basis for a nation of free individuals protected equally by the law. It is included at the beginning of the constitutions of both the Fourth French Republic (1946) and Fifth Republic (1958), and is considered valid as constitutional law.
^The French title can also be translated in the modern era as "Declaration of Human and Civic Rights".
^Kopstein Kopstein (2000). Comparative Politics: Interests, Identities, and Institutions in a Changing Global Order. Cambridge UP. p. 72. ISBN 978-0521633567.
^Fremont-Barnes 2007, p. 190.
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