Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
The declaration of the rights of the man and of the citizen is the establishing verification document that was composed along with the success of the French Revolution. This document, defined the human rights as the winners of this revolution understood them. Influenced by many western philosophers, the Enlightenment and the universal natural rights, the Declaration established a drastically new legal and moral system in France, and later on influenced many other revolutions and other constitutional documents that these revolutions led to be written.
The Declaration was based on the so called natural law rather on any religious doctrine or divine law and order. It establishes and verifies collective and individual rights of all men. Though it does not mention anything on women and slavery rights, no one can question the declarations’ contribution to evolution of the human societies.
Natural rights on liberty, life and property were set. Men are born free and equal in rights. They must remain like this all the time, and every elected government’s simple role is to preserve and to protect this. Natural rights are like moral rights, not given by laws and legal procedures, but exist and they’re universal. The declaration was taking any privilege the nobility and the clergy had.
Women are not referred anywhere in the Declaration, it only says about men. But later on, in 1791 a declaration for women was written by Oympe de Gouges and it was just a rephrasing of the mens’ declaration
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