IMPACT OF THE 1789 FRENCH DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS OF MAN AND OF THE CITIZEN ON DEVELOPMENT OF CONSTITUTIONALITY IN THE WORLD

Abstract

The French Revolution raised and opened a number of issues which were addressed in the course of the Revolution. More than two centuries later some
of those issues capture attention and interest of the human civilization. The history confirmed as superior the ethical value of principles defined in 1789
in the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, and the principles which complemented them along the same lines.

The constitutionality as a modern term related to the idea of sovereignty of people and human rights appeared first in the western, civil revolutions. French revolutionaries of the time believed that not only did they create a new social order but also a new people, new human species, new human being. The establishment of a democratic political space as a primary requirement for learning democracy is one of the fundamental achievements of the French Revolution and the Declaration which emanated from it. The principles presented in the 1789 French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, though significantly broadened and “enriched“, are incorporated in the contemporary constitutions of almost all countries of the world.