The Declaration Of Rights Of Man and the Citizen of 1791 owed much of its inspiration to Thomas Jefferson.
Its still the cardinal statement of liberal values in its declaration of the rule of law, human equality and the basic principle freedom means doing what the law allows, not what it forbids.
Everything about the world we live in today comes from it and it in one swell swoop, it rung the curtain down on the old medieval order.
“Everything about the world we live in today comes from it and it in one swell swoop, it rung the curtain down on the old medieval order.”
Yep. Atheism, Marxism both have their modern roots in that nasty document.
The Declaration, inspired in large part the 1948 United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Q.E.D.