Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizens, by the National Assembly of France, Observations on the Declarations of Rights, Miscellaneous Chapter, Conclusion Summary and Analysis

The following summarizes three documents. The first of these is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Of Citizens, By the National Assembly of France. It declares that the purpose of government is to protect and promote natural, inalienable human rights; asserts that all men are born free and equal; guarantees the rights of liberty, property, security, and resistance; that the people are sovereign; that the law should only stop actions that hurt society; and that law expresses the will of the community and many of the other rights and liberties that Paine mentioned...