Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1789)
The Declaration of Rights and of the Citizen was one of the documents written during the French Revolution. The declaration defined and stated a set of individual rights and the collective rights of the people. The document was adopted on August 26, 1789 by the National Constituent Assembly.
On August 26 the representatives of the French people gathered and organized as a National Assembly and they believed that ignorance and neglect of the rights of man are the cause of public disaster and of the corruption of government. So as a result the National Assembly recognizes the following rights of man and of the citizens.
