Title: What was revolutionary about the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen?
Contents:
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen is revolution work in the history of human rights. I would mention my opinions by four different perspectives as below.
The Declaration articles stems not from domestic one-man thinking but from the collaboration with the former revolutionary subjects. The key drafts of the Declaration was prepared by Lafayette, working with his very close friend Thomas Jefferson, who participate in making The Virginia Declaration of Rights, drafted in May 1776 by George Mason. The French Revolution follows the main historical stream of human rights and make a big progress.
Regarding the contents of the Declaration, it suppose that Men are born and remain free and equal in rights. During 18th century there are three estates such as the Church, the Nobility and the commons. Above two classes consists of only one percent in total population but possess the landed resources, tax exemptions and other privileges as seigneurs. The Declaration abolishes their privileges and suggests equality in the eyes of the law, so called the constitution.
The Declaration defines the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man such as liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression. It means the destruction of hierarchical privileges by calling an end to feudalism and to exemptions from taxation, freedom and equal rights for all human being and access to public office bases on talent. The monarchy was restricted, and all citizens were to have the right to take part in the legislative process[1].
I could observe many words of 'Law's among articles. According to feudalism the nobility is the seigneurial and possess the power as the law itself. Law means the objective material which is accepted rationally through legislative process. Law can only prohibit such actions as are hurtful to society not by any political power. I think this is the starting point of the constitution and is revolutionary in the social structure.
In socio-economic perspectives, there were many obstacles for economic growth. So many internal customs barriers and different measures and units hindered domestic and international trades. So the Assembly ended state restrictions on the grain trade and abolished internal customs barriers and supporting the free trade within the borders and encourage commerce and the increase of the nation's produce. It also abolished privileged corporations such as the First and Second Estates and the continued existence of guilds(by the Allarde law of March 1791) and combinations of workers or employers(made illegal by the Le Chapelier law of June 1791)[1]
In conclusion the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen is revolutionary in point of views such as collaborative works with former social revolutionaries, advancement in the human rights, the starting point of the constitution, and also progressive socio-econmic actions. Actually the Declaration was the blueprint and could not realize all of its aims at once and caused many struggles among the Assembly and the privileged estates such as the Church, the Nobility and even the king Louis XVI . But I think it was very important and the inevitable gateway to go through modern history of human rights all over the world.
References
[1] Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Declaration_of_the_Rights_of_Man_and_of_the_Citizen
THE FIRST DRAFT on Jul 14, 2014
Title: What was revolutionary about the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen?
Contents:
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen of 1789 is a fundamental document of the French Revolution and in the history of human rights. About how it is revolutionary I would support my thinking on the three perspectives as below.
Revolution in the human history stems not only from one-man thinking and from collaboration with former revolutionary subjects. The key drafts were prepared by Lafayette, working at times with his close friend Thomas Jefferson, who drew heavily upon The Virginia Declaration of Rights, drafted in May 1776 by George Mason. The French Revolution follows the main stream of human rights history and make a big progress.
Regarding the contents of the Declaration, it suppose that Men are born and remain free and equal in rights. During 18th century there are three estates such as the Church, the Nobility and the not-privileged. Above two classes consists of only one percent in the society but possess the landed resources, tax was exemptions. The Declaration does not support their privileges but suggest equality in the eyes of the law.
The Declaration defines the natural and imprescriptible rights of man such as liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression. It means the destruction of aristocratic privileges by proclaiming an end to feudalism and to exemptions from taxation, freedom and equal rights for all human being and access to public office bases on talent. The monarchy was restricted, and all citizens were to have the right to take part in the legislative process.
I could see many 'Law's among articles. According to feudalism the nobility is the seigneurial and the law itself. Law means the objective material which is agreed rationally through legislative process. Law can only prohibit such actions as are hurtful to society not by any political power. I think this is the starting point of the constitution and is revolutionary in the social structure.
In socio-economic perspectives, there were many obstacles for economic growth. So many internal customs barriers and different measures and units hindered domestic and international trades. So the Assembly ended state restrictions on the grain trade and abolished internal customs barriers and supporting the free trade within the borders and encourage commerce and the increase of the nation's produce. It also abolish privileged corporations such as the First and Second Estates and the continued existence of guilds(by the Allarde law of March 1791) and combinations of workers or employers(made illegal by the Le Chapelier law of June 1791)
In conclusion the Declaration was revolutionary in point of views such as collaborative works with former social revoluton, advancement in the human rights, the starting point of the constitution, and progressive socio-econmic actions. Actually the Declaration could not realize all of its aims at once and makes many struggles among the Assembly and the privileged estates such as the Church, the Nobility and even the king Louis XVI . But I think it was very important and the inevitable gateway to go through modern history all over the world.
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