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The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizens

work by Jellinek

Also known as: “Die Erklärung der Menschen und Bürgerrechte”

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In Georg Jellinek
…probably his best-known work is The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizens (1895; originally in German), in which he hypothesized that the French Revolutionary declaration (approved by the National Constituent Assembly on August 26, 1789) was derived not so much from the writings of the French Enlightenment…
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