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In a couple of sentences, explain what the main points were of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, that was passed by the French National Assembly in 1789.

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In its preamble and 17 articles it presents the “natural and inalienable” rights, which are ownership, freedom, security, and resistance to oppression; it sees equality before the law and the justice system, and reaffirms the principle of separation of powers.

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Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, painted by Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (French: 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.

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