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SweetFreedom Posted 12 years ago
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Who introduced it?

"who introduced it"? Does the "who" refer to General LaFayette? Or Jefferson?

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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.
  

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SweetFreedom Does the "who" refer to General LaFayette? Or Jefferson? LaFayette.

  • SweetFreedom Does the "who" refer to General LaFayette?
  • Or Jefferson?
  • LaFayette.
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SweetFreedom Does the "who" refer to General LaFayette? Or Jefferson?
LaFayette.

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