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“The Declaration of Rights was the death-warrant of the system of privilege, and so of the ancient regime … Yet in the history of ideas it belonged rather to the past than to the future.” Examine.

  • UPSC 2014
  • Origins of Modern Politics

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, adopted by the National (Constituent) Assembly on 26 August 1789, is at once the most politically explosive document of the French Revolution and, intellectually, one of the least original.

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  • The Death-Warrant of Privilege
  • Belonging to the Past: An Ideas History
  • Reconciling the Two Judgments

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