Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen Adopted (1789)

Adopted by France’s National Assembly in 1789, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen contains the principles that inspired the French Revolution. Influenced by the American Declaration of Independence, it serves as the preamble to France’s Constitution of 1791. It guarantees rights to liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression, as well as freedom of speech and of the press. Who later penned the “Declaration of the Rights of Women and the Female Citizen”? Discuss

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