write short note about the decleration of rights of man and citizen
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Declaration of the Rights of Man and citizen.’ The Declaration of the ‘Rights of Man’ and Citizen proclaimed freedom of speech and expression to be natural rights. Censorship was abolished. Newspapers, books and pamphlets flooded French towns and reached the countryside as well.
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen has a preamble and 17 brief articles. The first article contains the document’s central statement: “Men are born and remain free and equal in rights.”
The last article of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen was adopted on the 26 of August 1789 by the National Constituent Assembly, during the period of the French Revolution, as the first step toward writing a constitution for France.
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen was inspired by the writings of such Enlightenment thinkers as Montesquieu, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Voltaire.