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Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

An excerpt from The Evolution of Modern Liberty by George Scherger, 1904.

An excerpt from The Evolution of Modern Liberty by George Scherger, 1904.

Citation Information: Scherger, George Lawrence, excerpt from “The evolution of modern liberty,” Digital Public Library of America, http://dp.la/item/97863d9600136fa8f78d4a71d90cc2bd.

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An excerpt from The Evolution of Modern Liberty by George Scherger, 1904.

The text of England’s Magna Carta or “Great Charter,” written in 1215; ideas in this document later influenced the Declaration.

An excerpt from Two Treatises of Government, written by the Enlightenment philosopher John Locke in 1690.

An engraving of the Marquis de Lafayette created by Noel De Mire in 1781.

The text of the Virginia Bill of Rights, written in 1776.

The text of the US Bill of Rights, with commentary from the bicentennial commemoration in 1989.

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