Read the excerpt below from the Declaration of the Rights of
Citizen, a document that expressed many of the most important ideas that
motivated the French Revolution. Which of the statements that follow the
excerpt most accurately generalizes these ideas?
1. Men are born and remain free and equal in rights.
Social distinctions may be founded only upon the
general good.
2. The aim of all political association is the preservation
of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man.
These rights are liberty, property security, and
resistance to oppression
3. The principle of all sovereignty resides essentially in
the nation. No body nor individual may exercise any
authority which does not proceed directly from the
nation.
4. Liberty consists in the freedom to do everything
which injures no one else; hence the exercise of the
natural rights of each man has no limits except those
which assure to the other members of the society the
enjoyment of the same rights. These limits can only
be determined by law.