It meant nothing to the Ancient Regime. Absolute Monarchs ruled by Divine Right and with the full blessing of the Catholic Church. Under that set of rules and guidance there could be no Rights of Man and the Citizen.
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen prohibits privileges based on birth, such as nobility and inherited positions, which were common under the Old Regime. It also opposes social inequality and discrimination based on social class, emphasizing equal rights for all citizens.
A declaration of the rights of man, means that the common people (the bourgeoisie) gain rights that have to do with equality, freedom of speech, freedom of religion etc. Before the declaration of the rights of man were introduced in Revolutionary France for example, the Ancien Regime (the old regime) of the monarchy determined what happened in the country concerning these topics, meaning there was only one religion in France which was the right one: the roman catholic religion, there was no freedom of press (opinion) and there was a class system (first, second and third estate) which divided the people is ranks. When the declaration of the rights of man was adapted, the people gained much more freedom and the crown lost power.
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Violation of human rights
The declaration establishes the principles of society that will be the basis of the new legitimacy, ending the principles, institutions and practices of the Old Regime: "The principle of all sovereignty lies essentially in the nation." The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen considers legitimate the revolt of the deputies against the absolute monarchy, when declaring as the indispensable right of the man the "resistance to the oppression".
Adolf Hitler's regime was called the Third Reich.
Because protests by South African citizens called for international help saying that their human rights were being violated by the Apartheid regime.
No, It is called a dictatorship.
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen is a document that was issued by the France's National Constituent Assembly on August 27, 1789. Although mainly directed against the specific abuses of the old French aristocratic and monarchial regime, it was written in abstract universalistic language that also made it applicable to other European nations. Its political language was influenced by the Enlightenment as well as Virginia's Declaration of Rights that it adopted in 1776. Two of its main declarations were that of civic equality, which would challenge Europe's social and legal inequities, and popular sovereignty, which claimed that governments must be responsible to those they govern. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizenalso proclaimed that all men were "born and remain free and equal in rights" and that these natural rights were "liberty, property, security, and resistance to protection." It also claimed that government existed to protect these rights, all citizens were equal before the law, there must be due process of law and the presumption of innocent until proven guilty, and that political sovereignty resided in the representatives and the nation. In addition, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizenaffirmed the freedom of religion and that taxation was to be apportioned equally according to one's ability to pay. Note, however, that the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen only applied to men, not women, in accordance with Rousseau's idea of distinct gender spheres.
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen is a document that was issued by the France's National Constituent Assembly on August 27, 1789. Although mainly directed against the specific abuses of the old French aristocratic and monarchial regime, it was written in abstract universalistic language that also made it applicable to other European nations. Its political language was influenced by the Enlightenment as well as Virginia's Declaration of Rights that it adopted in 1776. Two of its main declarations were that of civic equality, which would challenge Europe's social and legal inequities, and popular sovereignty, which claimed that governments must be responsible to those they govern. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizenalso proclaimed that all men were "born and remain free and equal in rights" and that these natural rights were "liberty, property, security, and resistance to protection." It also claimed that government existed to protect these rights, all citizens were equal before the law, there must be due process of law and the presumption of innocent until proven guilty, and that political sovereignty resided in the representatives and the nation. In addition, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizenaffirmed the freedom of religion and that taxation was to be apportioned equally according to one's ability to pay. Note, however, that the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen only applied to men, not women, in accordance with Rousseau's idea of distinct gender spheres.
His suspension of civil rights led to many disappearances.