Question

In the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, which of the following are considered to be natural rights?

the right of women to hold public office
freedom of religion
right to property
freedom of speech

Answer 1

Answers:

• freedom of religion
• right to property
• freedom of speech

Details/context:

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen is a fundamental document of the French Revolution, which was written by Abbé Sieyès and the Marquis de Lafayette. Abbé Sieyès was a prominent clergyman in France who supported the rights of the common people. The Marquis de Lafayette was a member of the nobility who had fought in America's war for independence against Britain. Their document was written in consultation with Thomas Jefferson of the United States, who had drafted the Declaration of Independence.

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen was approved by the National Assembly of France on August 26, 1789, in the early months of the French Revolution. King Louis XVI approved the text on October 5, 1789, pushed much to do so by the Marquis de Lafayette, and with little choice at that time but to go along with changes that were happening due to the Revolution.

The French Revolution was not about women's rights. Some women spoke out in attempts to gain equal rights to men, such as Olympe de Gouges, who wrote A Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen (1791), but her perspective was not heeded at that time. In fact, she was executed by guillotine during the Reign of Terror in 1793 because she was considered an opponent of the Revolutionary government.

Answer 2

The answer would be the freedom of speech and freedom of religion

Natural Rights are the rights that you were born with and not granted by anyone else. In united states, natural right usually called inalienable rights. Some countries in the world dont have this kind of rights. Especially in those non developed country