The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
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The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen is the document that provided the basis of the French constitution, which states the laws of the nation. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen was based on the motto of the French Revolution, "Liberte, Egalite, and Fraternite."
Reflecting the ideas of the Enlightenment (an intellectual and scientific movement of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries), the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen guaranteed religious freedom, the freedom of speech and the press, and personal security. After decades of Feudalism in France, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen gave the French people something to be proud of. The creation of the declaration gave the French citizens a strong sense of nationalism because it was something that they all fought hard to obtain.
Reflecting the ideas of the Enlightenment (an intellectual and scientific movement of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries), the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen guaranteed religious freedom, the freedom of speech and the press, and personal security. After decades of Feudalism in France, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen gave the French people something to be proud of. The creation of the declaration gave the French citizens a strong sense of nationalism because it was something that they all fought hard to obtain.