The law is the expression of the general will.Nothing can be forbidden that is not interdicted by the law, and no one can be constrained to do that which the law does not order. The law has only the right to forbid such actions as are injurious to society.These limits can be determined only by law. Liberty consists in the power to do anything that does not injure others accordingly, the exercise of the rights of each man has no limits except those that secure the enjoyment of these same rights to the other members of society.No body, no individual can exercise authority that does not expressly proceed from the latter. The source of all sovereignty resides essentially in the nation.These rights are liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression. The aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man.
Social distinctions can be based only on public utility.
Men are born free and remain free and equal in rights. In consequence, the National Assembly recognizes and declares, in the presence and under the auspices of the Supreme Being, the following rights of man and citizen: The representatives of the French people, organized in a National Assembly, considering that ignorance, forgetfulness or contempt of the rights of man are the sole causes of public miseries and the corruption of governments, have resolved to set forth in a solemn declaration the natural, inalienable and sacred rights of man, so that this declaration, being ever-present to all the members of the social body, may unceasingly remind them of their rights and duties in order that the acts of the legislative power and those of the executive power may at each moment be compared with the aim of every political institution and thereby may be more respected and in order that the demands of the citizens, grounded henceforth upon simple and incontestable principles, may always take the direction of maintaining the constitution and welfare of all. The French Revolution and the organization of justice Declaration of the Rights of man and the Citizen
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