USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Declaration of the Rights of Man [August 26, 1789]: Notes for UPSC. France’s National Constituent Assembly declared the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen on August 26th 1789. The Declaration was drafted by the Abbé Sieyès and the Marquis de Lafayette, in consultation with Thomas Jefferson.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen came into existence in the summer of 1789, born of an idea of the Constituent Assembly, which was formed by the assembly of the Estates General to draft a new Constitution, and precede it with a declaration of principles.

Detailed explanation-3: -As can be seen in the texts, the French declaration was heavily influenced by the political philosophy of the Enlightenment and principles of human rights as was the U.S. Declaration of Independence which preceded it (4 July 1776). The declaration defines a single set of individual and collective rights for all men.

Detailed explanation-4: -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).