The National Constituent Assembly on August 1789 first paragraph begin as `Men are born, and always continue, free and equal in respect of their rights' (Resource book 3, A4, p 14). It means that people have equal rights when they are born and continue to have equal rights till they perish. Rights tells us what we are sanctioned to do, or what others are allowed to do to us, both as individuals and as fellow members of the society. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, a Swiss philosopher had a brilliant utopian visionary that attempted to offer this idea of a civil state. The first chapter of Rousseau's Social Contract claims that people were born free but were enslaved by the chains of society. If this claim of equal right was factual, the king had no right to rule, as he was just another person. According to Rousseau, a person has authority if they are...