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The 43 pages that link to Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, each with the reason it gives.

• French RevolutionRelated: It gave the revolution a political language for replacing privilege with civic rights.

• Human rightsRelated: Its language made universal-sounding rights central to revolutionary politics, though protections remained unequal.

• LiberalismBroader topic: It states a landmark version of liberal rights in revolutionary France.

• Maximilien RobespierreRelated: Robespierre’s early advocacy of political equality took shape amid debates over revolutionary rights.

• Natural rightsBroader topic: It presented liberty and equality as rights belonging to people by birth.

• Ancien RégimeRelated: Its principles challenged the legal distinctions on which the old order rested.

• Equality before the lawRelated: Its first article proclaimed that people are born and remain free and equal in rights.

• French monarchyRelated: Its account of sovereignty in the nation challenged the king’s inherited authority.

• Constitutional lawRelated: Its principles helped shape modern constitutional rights and declarations of popular authority.

• MontesquieuRelated: Its constitutional principles belong to the political debate his works helped shape.

• Estates-General of 1789Related: It translated the assembly’s claim to represent the nation into a new political doctrine.

• French EnlightenmentBroader topic: Its claims about liberty and equality echoed arguments developed by Enlightenment thinkers.

• Olympe de GougesRelated: Its promises supplied the text she explicitly challenged in her declaration for women.

• Censorship in FranceRelated: Its Article 11 made free communication a principle while allowing legal limits on abuses.

• Law of 22 PrairialCompared with: Its rights principles stand in sharp tension with the law’s removal of key trial safeguards.

• Storming of the BastilleRelated: The event helped make popular resistance to arbitrary power central to revolutionary politics.

• Code NoirCompared with: Its universal language stood in tension with colonial laws that maintained racialized slavery.

• Marquis de LafayetteRelated: Lafayette helped draft this declaration, drawing partly on American revolutionary principles.

• French republicanismRelated: It gave revolutionary republicanism a concise statement of rights and political legitimacy.

• RightsBroader topic: It translated rights language into a landmark statement of revolutionary principles.

• French nationalismBroader topic: Its claim that sovereignty resides in the nation supplied a foundational statement of civic nationalism.

• French citizenshipRelated: Its language shaped the republican understanding of citizenship and equal civic standing.

• Age of EnlightenmentBroader topic: It gave revolutionary expression to claims about equal rights and legitimate political authority.

• Virginia Declaration of RightsRelated: Its authors encountered the Virginia declaration’s ideas through the wider Atlantic exchange of rights principles.

• Great FearRelated: It followed the August reforms that answered unrest and challenged inherited privilege.

• Law of SuspectsCompared with: Its protections for liberty and legal process stand in tension with detention on broad suspicion.

• Abolition of slavery in FranceRelated: Its universal language sharpened the contradiction between revolutionary rights and colonial slavery.

• Estates-GeneralRelated: Its claims gave constitutional form to challenges launched by the 1789 deputies.

• Individual rightsBroader topic: It articulated individual rights as principles for remaking political authority.

• Atlantic revolutionsBroader topic: It made universal-sounding claims that activists invoked and contested across the Atlantic.

• Women's March on VersaillesRelated: The march followed royal resistance to approving revolutionary decrees associated with this declaration.

• Civil and political rightsBroader topic: Its claims about equal citizenship and political authority shaped modern rights language.

• Individual libertyBroader topic: It made individual rights and freedom from arbitrary power central revolutionary claims.

• JacobinsRelated: Its rights language supplied principles the Jacobins invoked, debated, and sometimes subordinated to emergency rule.

• Tennis Court OathRelated: It articulated principles of legitimate government that the oath had made urgent.

• History of human rightsBroader topic: It made universal rights central to a revolutionary constitutional program.

• PhilosophesBroader topic: Its language of rights and sovereignty echoed debates the philosophes had helped popularize.

• Anacharsis ClootsRelated: Cloots treated its rights as universal claims that should cross national boundaries.

• Dutty BoukmanRelated: Its language sharpened conflicts over whether revolutionary rights applied to enslaved people.

• Enlightenment philosophyBroader topic: It translated universal claims about rights into a revolutionary political document.

• Honoré Gabriel RiquetiRelated: Mirabeau helped shape debates over the declaration and the constitutional principles it expressed.

• Law of FranceRelated: Its principles remain part of France’s constitutional framework.

• Natural rights and legal rightsBroader topic: It translated universal-rights claims into a foundational statement for a new legal order.