Chapter 8 Part One - Review of the Declaration of Human Rights

The first three articles summarize the entire content of the "Declaration of Human Rights"; the subsequent articles are either derived from the first three articles or continue to clarify the first three articles.Articles 4, 5, and 6 explain in more detail what Articles 1, 2, and 3 are only general descriptions of. Articles 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11 describe the principles on which the law is based, consistent with the proclaimed rights.But some well-meaning minds in France and elsewhere have doubted whether the tenth article is sufficient to secure the rights it purports to grant; The power of the mind.Therefore, it appears to people like the light being covered by clouds and mist. When the light source is blocked, people can't see anything admirable in the dark. ①The rest of the articles beginning with the twelfth are substantively contained in the principles of the previous ones, but the reasons are given in more detail in the particular situation in which France was then in which it was necessary to set things right, than in the other situation some.

When the National Assembly considered the Declaration of Human Rights, some members of Parliament argued that if a declaration of rights were promulgated, a declaration of duties should also be promulgated.This view is obviously considered, and the problem is only that it is not considered carefully enough.In terms of interaction, a declaration of rights is also a declaration of duties.Whatever rights I have as a man are also rights of another; and it therefore becomes my duty to possess and secure them. The first three are the foundations of liberty, both in individuals and in nations; and no nation can be called free if its government does not start from the principles contained in these three, and continues to keep them pure. A Declaration of All Rights, however, will be of far greater value to the nations of the world, and of far greater benefit, than all statutes and regulations hitherto enacted.

In the preface to the Declaration of Powers we behold the grandeur of a nation, under the aegis of the Creator, proceeding to establish a government, so new and unequalled by anything in Europe, that the name Revolution has diminished its original meaning. , and rise to human revival.What are the governments of today's Europe but the abode of crime and oppression?What about the UK?Its own people does not say that it is a market, and everyone puts a price on it, so there is a contract; since the relationship and conditions of man as an individual man to the Creator cannot be changed, nor can it be changed by any human law or law. The change of human rights, and the religious beliefs that are part of this contract, cannot even be a subject of human law. All laws must comply with this pre-existing contract, and the contract cannot be rashly made to obey the law, because the law is not only made by humans, And it came about later.When man looks around and sees that he is not a creature of his own making, and sees so much in the world for his enjoyment, a conversion must arise spontaneously, and this conversion must always be sacred to everyone, because He felt it was right and wrong for the government to intervene. --author

And corruption abounds at the expense of the deceived people?It is no surprise, then, that the French Revolution was viciously maligned.Had the French Revolution been limited to the destruction of notorious absolutism, Mr. Burke and his ilk might have been silent.Now they cry "the revolution has gone too far" —that is, too much for them.The revolution pointed at corruption and corruption, and corrupt officials panicked.They are stern and relentless, but they are just the groans of wounded villains.The French Revolution, however, received not injury from this opposition, but esteem.The more the French Revolution was struck, the brighter it shone; lest it had not been struck enough.Attack is not to be feared: truth has established the revolution, and time will perpetuate it.

After having explored the course of most of the main stages of the French Revolution from its inception to the storming of the Bastille to the formulation of the Declaration of the Rights of Man, I shall conclude with the powerful cry of the Marquis de Lafayette—hope this The great monument erected to liberty is a lesson for the oppressor and a model for the oppressed! ①①See page 121 of this book.Note—Since the taking of the Bastille, events have been announced but the various events here recorded occurred before that period; some of them, therefore, are evidently little known. --author