Reading Notes week 6 Part B: The Declaration of Rights of Man and of the citizen

Reading Notes 

Part B 

2/28/18

week 6

• Only July 14, 1789, leaders of the French Revolution came together to make a declaration of right and on August 26, 1789, the Declaration of the Rights of Men and of the Citizens flooded the streets of France. 
• Similar to the name of our Declaration of Independence, France's rights is in many ways  different. Even though the man to write our declaration helped France with there drafting process. 
• Some of the Declarations that stood at to me was 7 when it says, "but every citizen summoned or seized in virtue of a law ought to render instant obedience; he makes himself guilty by resistance". on pg. 22 
• I believe it is saying that if they call you to court over breaking the law and you ignore the call you will be assumed guilty by not showing up. That is different from our law 
• Also with declaration 9 it says " Every man is presumed innocent until he has been pronounced guilty" 
• This is really different from our law of being innocent until proven guilty but in France it's not the same 
• The people who control the laws or the judges have more power over if a person is guilty or not 
• Olympe De Gouges or other wise known as Marie Gouges was on of the most radical women rights voice you would hear in 1748- 1793
• pg. 23 " She was advance highly progressive ideas, including the abolition of slavery and the rights of orphans and unwed mothers".
• "if women can be executed then surely they should be permitted to make public speeches". In this time women couldn't even speak in public and Gouges was determine to spark a change with her radically although in todays age rational ideas. 
• Sadly Olympe de Gouges was guillotine during the Reign Of Terror because she used "inflammatory words" and she died a "public enemy"
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