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| The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen adopted by the National Assembly of France in 1789 was one of the most constructive achievements of the French Revolution, and was a model for similar documents across the world. Based on various documents in the United States later collected as the constitutional Bill of Rights, and on contemporary political thought, it guaranteed the citizen legal protection against the power of the state. Yet the revolutionary state which created it soon impinged upon the rights of its citizens far more brutally than the old French monarchy had done. This table of its articles, dating from 1793, is in the form modified by Maximilien Robespierre, whose regime was one of the earliest examples of modern state terror. | ||||||
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