"who introduced it"? Does the "who" refer to General LaFayette? Or Jefferson?
Background info:
The
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (French:
Déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen), passed by France's
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Constituent_Assembly in August 1789, is a fundamental document of the
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution and in the history of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_the_Rights_of_Man_and_of_the_Citizen#cite_note-1 It defines the individual and collective rights of all the
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estates_of_the_realm as universal. The Declaration was directly influenced by
Thomas Jefferson working with
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_du_Motier,_Marquis_de_Lafayette,
who introduced it.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_the_Rights_of_Man_and_of_the_Citizen#cite_note-2 Influenced also by the doctrine of "
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_rights", the rights of man are held to be universal: valid at all times and in every place, pertaining to human nature itself.