The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen was set by France national Constituent Assembly in 1789 as a human and civil rights document of the French Revolution. Inspired by Enlightenment philosophers, it stated the core values of the Revolution and had a major impact on the development of individual liberty and democracy in Europe and beyond. Its French title is sometimes rendered in modern usage as the Declaration of Human and Civil Rights.
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Which rights does the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen name as natural rights?
Article 2 names liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression.
Article 2 of the Declaration states that the aim of all political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man, and it lists those rights as liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression.
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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 and civil rights document from the French Revolution; the French title can be translated in the modern era as "Declaration of Human and Civil Rights".
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is a human and civil rights document from the French Revolution
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The last article of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen was adopted on 26 August 1789 by the National Constituent Assembly
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set by France's National Constituent Assembly in 1789
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Déclaration des droits de l'Homme et du citoyen de 1789
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Declaration of Human and Civil Rights
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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 and civil rights document from the French Revolution; the French title can be translated in the modern era as "Declaration of Human and Civil Rights".
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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 and civil rights document from the French Revolution; the French title can be translated in the modern era as "Declaration of Human and Civil Rights".
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