MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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They were locked out of a meeting and wanted to show the king they would not stand down.
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They were upset about the increases in price of bread.
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They feared the king would send his army to take down the National Assembly.
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They were trying to write a document for more equality.
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Detailed explanation-1: -It was influenced by the doctrine of natural right, stating that the rights of man are held to be universal. It became the basis for a nation of free individuals protected equally by law.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen helped to form the foundation of the French Revolution, in hopes of ending the monarchy and establishing a democracy in France. Nature made men free and equal; the distinctions between them are based on general utility.
Detailed explanation-3: -On 26 August 1789, the French National Constituent Assembly issued the Déclaration des droits de l’homme et du citoyen (Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen) which defined individual and collective rights at the time of the French Revolution.
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).
Detailed explanation-5: -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 civil rights document from the French Revolution.