Nicodemus was a ruler of the Jews.
"The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen" is actually a document that was passed in the year 1789 by France's National Constitution Assembly. Based on this document, this declared freedom of press, speech and religion and was based on the U.S. Declaration of Independence.
Explanation:
to declare the causes which impel them to the separation" congress had to prove the legitimacy of its cause