Directions: Read the following excerpt and follow the directions that follow, Document A
Source: Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, August 26, 1789
The representatives of the French people, organized as a National Assembly, believing that
the ignorance, neglect, or contempt of the rights of man are the sole cause of public
calamities and of the corruption of governments, have determined to set forth in a solemn
declaration the natural, unalienable, and sacred rights of man... Therefore the National
Assembly recognizes and proclaims, in the presence and under the auspices of the Supreme
Being, the following rights of man and of the citizen:
1. Men are born and remain free and equal in rights..
2. The aim of all political association (govemment) is the preservation of the natural
and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security, and
resistance to oppression.
9. As all persons are held innocent until they shall have been declared guilty, if arrest
shall
deemed indispensable, all harshness not essential to the securing of the
prisoner's person shall be severely repressed by law...
11. The free communication of ideas and opinions is one of the most precious of the
rights of man. Every citizen may, accordingly, speak, write, and print with
freedom
2. Identify (underline/highlight) and label two or more elements of Enlightenment thought that are reflected in
the Declaration