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The three men helped develop the social contract theory into what it is in this modern day and age.
Declaration of the rights of man rousseau. He wasn t the. The declaration was drafted by the abbé sieyès and the marquis de lafayette in consultation with thomas jefferson. One of the enlightened philosophers who suggested popular sovereignty was the englishman john locke. One of the biggest most revolutionary ideas within the declaration of the rights of man and citizen is popular sovereignty.
The declaration of the rights of man was based on the social and political theories of the french philosopher jean jacques rousseau and expressed the aims of the american declaration of independence. And that makes him a strong influence on the declaration of the rights of man and citizen. The declaration asserts that men have inalienable rights including the rights to liberty property and resistance to oppression. Déclaration des droits de l homme et du citoyen de 1789 set by france s national constituent assembly in 1789 is a human civil rights document from the french revolution.
The social contract the three philosophers thomas hobbes john locke and jean jacques rousseau were three key thinkers of political philosophy. The declaration which contains 17 articles is a short document. Rousseau saw a fundamental divide between society and human nature and contended that humankind was good by nature but corrupted by society. The french declaration also encompassed many of the insights of the philosopher jean jacques rousseau and his important book the social contract which argues that the law should be an expression of the general will that is intended to promote equality of rights and to forbid only actions harmful to the society.
It gave the world ideas about the natural rights of everyman and analysed the whole question of government including who should benefit from it. The preamble describes it as a solemn declaration of the natural inalienable and sacred rights of man failures to protect these rights it notes are the sole causes of public misfortunes and the corruption of governments. The declaration of the rights of man and of the citizen french. Perhaps his most influential work was the social contract.
Letting the people participate in their government by voting politicians in and out of office. Rousseau was a french swiss guy who suggested getting rid of the class system decades before the french revolution. Rousseau had some ideas that were way ahead of his time.