Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen: Facts & Related Content

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• The Declaration reiterated ideas from the Magna Carta such as placing the power of the law over the power of the monarch and ruling that taxation must be raised through common consent.
• Olympe de Gouges published the Declaration of the Rights of Woman as a reply asserting that women have the same rights as men.
• The Marquis de Lafayette, the American Revolutionary War hero, was the primary author of the Declaration.