MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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freedom of speech and freedom of the press
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equal rights for women and freedom for slaves
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privacy and exemption from taxation
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privileges for the nobles and lands granted to the clergy
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Detailed explanation-1: -The basic principle of the Declaration was that all “men are born and remain free and equal in rights” (Article 1), which were specified as the rights of liberty, private property, the inviolability of the person, and resistance to oppression (Article 2).
Detailed explanation-2: -Articles. Article I – Men are born and remain free and equal in rights. Social distinctions may be founded only upon the general good. Article II – The goal of any political association is the conservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man.
Detailed explanation-3: -In its preamble and its 17 articles, it sets out the “natural and inalienable” rights, which are freedom, ownership, security, resistance to oppression; it recognizes equality before the law and the justice system, and affirms the principle of separation of powers.
Detailed explanation-4: -These rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression.
Detailed explanation-5: -Liberty consists in the ability to do whatever does not harm another; hence the exercise of the natural rights of each man has no other limits than those which assure to other members of society the enjoyment of the same rights. These limits can only be determined by the law.