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    Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen is a direct response to the ignorance of the two other estates and the King. At the beginning of the French Revolution, the people taking part had a good idea of what they want in the new form of government they are demanding. They wanted more rights, less restriction, and an equal voice in everything from day-to-day operations, all the way up to the Estates General. So, when they piled up all of their

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    The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen was created in 1789, and is a formal document about the civil rights of the people. During this time, The french representatives organized a National assembly to speak about the rights each citizen obtained. Since the rights of man were unclear, and often times led to war, corruption , and havoc, they national assembly decided on declaring a new set of laws and rights. In the Assembly. Jefferson didn’t necessarily agree that everyone should have a

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    In 1791, Thomas Paine drafted the Rights of Man, which supported the idea that citizens and monarchs should have similar goals in order to have a united society. The Rights of Man support the unalienable rights of man: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, but it fails to capture the true issues that the nation faces. He paints an impractical utopia that is formed by the characterizations in his book. Therefore, the ideals held by Paine in the Rights of Man are inaccurate due to the realistic

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    Natural Rights creates a democratic republic government where supreme power rests with the people and allows them to elect representatives to operate their country, therefore upsetting citizens since absolute monarchies rule. Natural Rights spawns uprisings and revolution in countries because people believe it to be their right to have shared power which is evident through multiple documents such as The English Bill of Rights, U.S. Constitution, and The Declaration of the Rights of Man. John Locke’s

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    The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen The Declaration of the Rights of man and Citizen is a document of French constitutional history. This declaration listed the rights of an individual, which guaranteed the rights of ¨liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression”. These are the supposed rights of human nature. The purpose of the government, in this document, was to preserve these rights. The document also declared the sovereignty of the people and equality of men and includes

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    Thomas Paine, born British but later a proud American, was certainly one of the most revolutionary thinkers of his time. In his pamphlet, Rights of Man, he describes what it meant to live in America, and how it stood out from Western Europe. Paine illustrated the United States as being “of people from different nations...” who were ultimately are seamlessly united under one democratic government. He pointed out that only in America, could you find a government which didn’t oppress the impoverished

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    The Declaration of the Rights of Man was created, which was an outline of man’s natural rights. The document enforced that the wealthy pay taxes and that more jobs become available. This outline, one of the most important underlying documents of equality within the French Revolution, began to appear all over Europe. The articles within the declaration were written as a direct disapproval of the laws and policies of the aristocratic power of the time. Instead of divine right, the goal was to achieve

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    By reading the Encyclopedie and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, one can understand that there were many problems concerning people during that time, such as the creation of a just government as well as the responsibility of a father. Firstly, the author in the Encyclopedie put forth his belief of a just government, in which the rights of the people would be preserved. In other words, this could also show the people’s fear at the time of a creation of a tyranny or a government

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    book Rights of Man (1791) of the newly liberated United States of America as a land of freedom and equality. Paine describes America as diverse and harmonious all while having a fair and just government. Although Thomas Paine’s description of America being a melting pot of numerous cultures, languages, and religions holds true today, his other assertions on the absence of civil unrest in America and the fairness of the new nation’s economic system do not. In his 1791 book Rights of Man, Thomas

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    In the book Rights of Man, by Thomas Paine, he interprets the idea of how in the old and modern American society the treatment of others is impressive to the rest of the world. America is made up of people who practice different religions, speak different languages, and have different cultures, however all are united in peace and harmony because the government is based off the rights of man. Although, some are privileged because of their wealth the government views all citizens equal which makes

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