Question

Which principle is found in The Declaration of the Rights of Man and in The Citizen?

Answer 1

Answer:  d. A government's power comes from the people.

Details/context:

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen is a fundamental document of the French Revolution, which was written by Abbé Sieyès and the Marquis de Lafayette.  Abbé Sieyès was a prominent clergyman in France who supported the rights of the common people.  The Marquis de Lafayette was a member of the nobility who had fought in America's war for independence against Britain. Their document was written in consultation with Thomas Jefferson of the United States, who had drafted the Declaration of Independence.

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen was approved by the National Assembly of France on August 26, 1789, in the early months of the French Revolution.  King  Louis XVI approved the text on October 5, 1789, pushed much to do so by the Marquis de Lafayette, and with little choice at that time but to go along with changes that were happening due to the Revolution.

The French Revolution was motivated by Enlightenment reasoning and declared freedom of religion, so answer a is not correct.

The French Revolution was not about women's rights - so answer b about women having the right to vote is incorrect.   Some women spoke out in attempts to gain equal rights to men, such as  Olympe de Gouges , who wrote A Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen (1791), but her perspective was not heeded at that time.  In fact, she was executed by guillotine during the Reign of Terror in 1793 because she was considered an opponent of the Revolutionary government.

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen incorporated concepts from several Enlightenment thinkers, such as Locke, Montesquieu, Voltaire and Rousseau.  Rousseau had advocated direct democracy, but other Enlightenment political theorists had proposed more of a representative government format.

Answer 2

D, the governments power comes from the people