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

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

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Excerpt from “Constitution of the State of California, the Constitution of the United States, Magna Carta, Declaration of Independence, The Articles of Confederation,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/a500c9e6361c6f91db0415464679aa96.
Note: These citations are programmatically generated and may be incomplete.
Courtesy of University of California via HathiTrust.

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The text of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, written in 1789, translated into English.
An image of egalité or equality, created in 1793, holding the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.
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.
A pamphlet containing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights created in 1949.
An 1889 portrait of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who helped to organize the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848.
A letter from Ho Chi Minh to Harry Truman in 1946 regarding the US involvement in Vietnamese independence from France.
An excerpt from the text of the “US Human Rights Policy Toward Africa,” published in 2001 by the United States Institute of Peace.

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