 | João Carlos Espada, Marc F. Plattner, Adam Wolfson - Philosophy - 2000 - 184 pages
...Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen states in the very first of its seventeen principles: "Men are born, and always continue, free and equal in respect of their rights." This intimate connection between the rights or freedom of men and their mutual equality can easily... | |
 | Ian Barnes - History - 2000 - 246 pages
...i , V ; Men as percentage of white population 1790 . SOUTH \CAR011NA Chapter Nine The State Expands "Men are born, and always continue, free and equal in respect of their rights." French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizen, 1789. The immediate aftermath of independence... | |
 | Thomas Paine - History - 2000 - 388 pages
...truth and the existence of man, and combining moral with political happiness and national prosperity. "I. Men are born and always continue free and equal in respect to their rights. Civil distinctions, therefore, can be founded only on public utility. "II. The end... | |
 | Kirsten Hastrup - Political Science - 2001 - 256 pages
...Being, and with the hope of his blessing and favour, the following sacred rights of men and citizens: i: Men are born, and always continue, free, and equal...therefore, can be founded only on public utility. iv: Political Liberty consists in the power of doing whatever does not injure another. The exercise... | |
 | Alfred William Brian Simpson - History - 2004 - 1188 pages
...articles followed from them, or were merely elucidations. As he translated them these articles provided: I. Men are born, and always continue, free, and equal...therefore, can be founded only on public utility. 111 Paine, Right; of. Ma a, at 114. 114 Paine, 'Observations on the [Xclaration of Rights', in Rights... | |
 | Anthony J. Langlois - Law - 2001 - 228 pages
...grand narratives that emerge out of Enlightenment historiography. This shows us that phrases such as 'men are born, and always continue, free and equal in respect of their rights' can only ever be true and self-evident if the philosophical frameworks which inform such assertions... | |
 | Stephen C. Angle, Marina Svensson - History - 2001 - 524 pages
...rights. They refer to the Second Article of the French Declaration of the Rights of Man: "The purpose of all political associations is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible (yong bu momie de) rights of man." We have already said that human rights is an abstract thing; it... | |
 | Gary B. Herbert - 2003 - 382 pages
...voice of and for the common man. The philosophical heart of the Declaration is its proclamation that "Men are born, and always continue, free and equal in respect of their rights." No tolerance is allowed for the aristocratic conviction that the many owe an allegiance to their benefactors,... | |
 | Forrest D. Colburn - Business & Economics - 2002 - 158 pages
...truths "that all men are created equal." The French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen states: "Men are born, and always continue, free and equal in respect of their rights." The relationship between the rights or freedom of men — and women — and their equality can be traced... | |
 | Nick Hewlett - Political Science - 2005 - 236 pages
...Being, and with the hope of his blessing and favour, the following sacred rights of men and of citi/ens: I. Men are born, and always continue, free, and equal...associations, is, the preservation of the natural From the 'Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, 1 789', in Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man,... | |
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The end of all political associations is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man; and these rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance of oppression. 
