FRENCH REVOLUTION
FRANCE UNDER NAPOLEON
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The U.S. Constitution
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Declaration of Independence
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English Bill of Rights
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All of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Declaration was inspired by the Age of Enlightenment in Europe, when ideals like liberty, tolerance, fraternity, progress, separation of the church from the state and constitutional government came about.
Detailed explanation-2: -Inspired by the American Declaration of Independence in 1776 and the spirit of the Enlightenment, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789 marked the beginning of a new political era. Since then, it has never ceased to be a reference text.
Detailed explanation-3: -As its name suggests, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen was a written expression of the natural rights of citizens in revolutionary France. Inspired by British and American covenants, France’s declaration was the most ambitious attempt to protect individual rights in any European nation to that point.
Detailed explanation-4: -Source C The Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen 1. Men are born and remain free and equal in rights. 2. The aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and inalienable rights of man; these are liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression.