 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare - 1947 - 844 pages
...of France, in its Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizens, made the following statements : "The representatives of the people of France,, formed into a National Assembly * ยป * have resolved to set forth, in a solemn declaration, these natural, imprescriptible, and unalienahle... | |
 | 1989 - 758 pages
...France approved the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen. This historic document noted that "ignorance, neglect, or contempt of human rights, are the sole causes of public misfortunes" and affirmed the concept of individual liberty. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen was... | |
 | Charles T. Sprading - 1913 - 550 pages
...the principle of freedom. For it is true, as was declared by the first National Assembly of France, that "ignorance, neglect, or contempt of human rights...public misfortunes and corruptions of government." Here is the conclusion of the whole matter: That we should do unto others as we would have them do... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1974 - 268 pages
...here subjoined. DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS OF MAN AND OF CITIZENS BY THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF FRANCE THE Representatives of the people of FRANCE, formed...and unalienable rights: that this declaration, being constandy present to the minds of the members of the body social, they may be ever kept attentive to... | |
 | R. J. Vincent - 1986 - 198 pages
...particular class. The preamble to the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen announced that 'ignorance, neglect, or contempt of human rights,...sole causes of public misfortunes and corruptions of Government'.38 And while this diagnosis of social ills has been an important theme of liberal political... | |
 | 1990 - 384 pages
...France approved the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen. This historic document noted that "ignorance, neglect, or contempt of human rights, are the sole causes of public misfortunes" and affirmed the concept of individual liberty. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen was... | |
 | Christopher Hill - 1994 - 262 pages
...This is the position taken in the preamble to the Declaration of the Rights of Man. when it announces that 'ignorance. neglect. or contempt of human rights...sole causes of public misfortunes and corruptions of Government'.10 The corollary is the view that fidelity to human rights brings about political well-being.... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1995 - 944 pages
...here subjoined. DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS OF MAN AND OF CITIZENS, BY THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF FRANCE. "The Representatives of the people of FRANCE formed...body social, they may be ever kept attentive to their rights and their duties: that the acts of the legislative and executive powers of government, being... | |
 | J. M. Barbalet - 2001 - 224 pages
...Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizens was adopted by the National Assembly of France. It held that "ignorance, neglect, or contempt of human rights,...public misfortunes and corruptions of Government" and that these rights are "natural, imprescriptible, and unalienable." In a contemporary explication... | |
 | Johannes Morsink - 1999 - 400 pages
...principles thus laid down, AND HAVE THEREFORE adopted the following Declaration" (E/CN.4/82/Add.8/p. 2). 67. "The representatives of the People of France, formed...corruptions of Government, have resolved to set forth in a solemu declaration, these natural, imprescriptible and inalienable rights; that this Declaration being... | |
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The Representatives of the people of FRANCE, formed into a NATIONAL ASSEMBLY, considering that ignorance, neglect, or contempt of human rights, are the sole causes of public misfortunes and corruptions of Government... 
