The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizens

The declaration of "the rights of man and of citizens" by the French Constituent Assembly on August 26, 1789, is one of the most significant events of the French Revolution. It...

In his _History of Political Science_--the most comprehensive work of that kind which France possesses--Paul Janet, after a thorough presentation of the _Contrat Social_, discus...

The conception of a declaration of rights had found expression in France even before the assembling of the States General. It had already appeared in a number of _cahiers_. The...

The Congress of the colonies, which were already resolved upon separation from the mother country, while sitting in Philadelphia issued on May 15, 1776, an appeal to its constit...

VIRGINIA, I. That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any co...

The comparison of the American and French declarations shows at once that the setting forth of principles abstract, and therefore ambiguous, is common to both, as is also the pa...

The democratic idea, upon which the constitution of the Reformed Church is based, was carried to its logical conclusion in England toward the end of the sixteenth century, and f...

The seventeenth century was a time of religious struggles. In the following century political and economic interests pressed into the foreground of historical movement. The demo...

In conclusion there remains still one question to answer. Why is it that the doctrine of an original right of the individual and of a state compact, arising as far back as the t...