Sunday, October 11, 2015

Brief analysis of the declaration of the rights of man and the citizen

The document is The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen. This document was written soon after a French Revolution in which the people rose up because they were being oppressed. This document was written by Marquis de Lafayette with the help of Thomas Jefferson, both of whom supported in the American Revolution and the ideals of natural rights proposed in it.  It was written to try and prevent future political corruption and public calamities. The document appears to try to appeal primarily to logos by saying a right and mentioning certain treatments that should be expected due to that right but it refers to the rights as self-evident and does not really prove it in any fashion and seems to rely on pathos to make this point. Their appeal to ethos is that they are under the presence and auspices of the supreme being, God.

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