The obvious choice would be to compare the two great declarations…because they have a ton in common. The Marquis de Lafayette based much of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen on the...

While the Declaration of Independence mentions equality and the idea that mankind has certain rights that can never be taken away, it stops short of actually listing them outright. That task is lef...

One of the biggest, most revolutionary ideas within the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen is popular sovereignty. You know: letting the people participate in their government by voting p...

Rousseau was a French-Swiss guy who suggested getting rid of the class system decades before the French Revolution. And that makes him a strong influence on the Declaration of the Rights of Man and...

Hidden within the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen is the idea that citizens have the right to start a revolution if their government isn't treating them fairly—which is a pretty bomb...