Opposing Viewpoints: “The Natural Rights of the French People: Two Views.”
WRITING ASSGNMENT 1 WORLD CIVILIZATION
Instructions: Write an essay addressing the following questions. Documents are either in your text book (pp.531-32 9th edition or 613-614 8th edition) or under lecture notes for chapter 18 Enlightenment. The lecture notes not only give you the documents but an explanation of each which should be very helpful in answering these questions. Place a heading at the top with your name, date and assignment name, and class. Use 14 font with 1 1/2 ” margins, double spaced.
Opposing Viewpoints: “The Natural Rights of the French People: Two Views.”
1.What altered ideas about society and government in France are reflected in this excerpt from The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen?
2.What are the differences, if any, between this document and America’s Declaration of Independence? .
3.In what ways were the ideas of Olympe de Gouges’ Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen ahead of their time? .
4. Compare this declaration with the “Declaration of the Rights of Man in terms of its content and goals. What are the differences, if any?
Would de Gouges’s ideas be accepted today?
Why and where?
