The French Revolution: The Declaration Of Human Rights

The French Revolution was a time were the French people wanted to obtain their human rights, it took lots of dedication, motivation, and failure to establish a political system that would benefit citizens. People were learning and understanding the principles philosophes were advocating about. Philosophes explained the importance of natural human rights: reason, reform, and freedom. The French Revolution expressed the people’s need of change, by creating a preamble, brought monarchy to an end, attempt of a new constitution, and created a system in which it altered people’s rational regarding their individual rights.
The French Revolution was a moment where humanity changed their reasoning and thinking to ideas of the Enlightenment. France funded the American Revolution, which caused France to encounter a serious financial predicament. Hunt, Martin, Rosenwein, and Smith (2016) state, “For years the French government had been trying unsuccessfully to modernize the tax system to make it more equitable” (p. 610). Nevertheless, the propose was ineffective because the poor peasants were the ones being
The Declaration of Rights of Men and Citizen was the start of a movement in which people demonstrated their support with the Enlightenment ideals. The natural rights did not apply to women nor to anyone else who was not a white man. According to Hunt, Martin, Rosenwein, and Smith, “The National Assembly turned to preparing France’s first written constitution” (p. 615). Evidently, people were unsatisfied with the system and the National Assembly abolished many unequal laws that would not be included in the new constitution. The Enlightenment influenced the National assembly to create an ideal constitution in which people will be granted with their natural