received directly from the Enlightenment and gladly publish
Man, you're capable of being right? It is a woman who asks the question, at least you do not deprive of this right. Tell me? Who gave you the supreme authority to oppress my sex? Your strength? Your talent? Observe the Creator in his wisdom, scroll to the nature in all its grandeur, of which you seem to want you to compare, and give me, if you dare, the example of this tyrannical power. Up to animals, consult the elements, study plants, finally throws a look at all the changes of matter organized, and give you the evidence when I offer you the means; search, investigate and distinguish, if you can, the sexes in 'administration of nature. Everywhere you'll find them confusing, everywhere they work together in a harmonious whole in this immortal masterpiece. Only man has bundled a principle of this exception. Bizarre, blind, bloated with science and degenerated in this century illuminated and sagacity, the most stupid ignorance, want to rule by a despot on sex that has all the intellectual faculties; claims to enjoy the revolution and claim their rights equality, to say nothing more.
Preamble
mothers, daughters, sisters, representatives of the nation, asking to be able to be in the National Assembly. Considering that ignorance, forgetfulness or contempt of women's rights are the causes of public misfortunes and the corruption of governments, have decided to exhibit, in a solemn declaration the natural, unalienable and sacred woman, so that this declaration, constantly present to all members of society, constantly remind them of the their rights and duties, so that the acts of the power of women and those men of power, could be compared at any moment with the purposes of all political institutions, to be met to ensure that citizens' protests, now based on simple principles and understood, are increasingly turning to the maintenance of the Constitution, of good morals, and happiness of all. As a result, sex is superior in beauty that courage in the sufferings of motherhood, recognizes and declares, in the presence and under the auspices of the Supreme Being, the following rights of women and citizenship.
Article I
Woman is born free and have the same rights. Social distinctions can only be based on the common.
Article II The purpose of every political association is the preservation of natural and inalienable rights of woman and man: these rights are liberty, property, safety, and especially resistance to oppression.
Article III
The principle of all sovereignty resides essentially in the nation, which is the meeting of women and men: no body, no individual may exercise the authority that is not explicitly derived.
Article IV
freedom and justice is to return everything that belongs to others, the pursuit of the natural rights of the woman has no bounds tyranny perpetuated the dispute between the man and these limits must be reformed by the laws the nature and reason.
Article V
The laws of nature and reason preventing any action harmful to society: all that is not prohibited by these laws, wise and divine, can not be prevented, and none can be obliged to do what they do not order.
Article VI
The law must be the expression of the general will, all the citizens must contribute personally or through their representatives, his training, they must be the same for everyone: All citizens and all citizens , being equal in the eyes, must be equally eligible to all dignities, public place and use them according to their ability, and without other distinction than that of their virtues and talents.
Article VII
No woman is excluded, it is accused, arrested and detained in cases determined by law. Women like men to obey strict law.
Article VIII
The law does not stipulate that strict penalties and obviously necessary, and no one can be punished except by a law established and promulgated before the offense and legally applied to women.
Article IX
all the rigor and practiced law for every woman pleaded guilty.
Article X
Nobody should be persecuted for his opinions, even fundamental, the woman has the right to ascend the scaffold, must also have the right to come to the rostrum, provided that her demonstrations do not disrupt the public order established by law.
Article XI
The free communication of thoughts and opinions is one of the most precious rights of women, because this freedom ensures the legitimacy of the fathers to their children. Any citizen may therefore speak freely, I am the mother of a child that belongs to you, without a cruel injury forced her to conceal the truth, unless the abuse of this freedom in cases determined by law.
Article XII
guarantee the rights of women and the town needs a special support, such security shall be established for the benefit of everyone, and not for the particular use of those to whom it is entrusted.
Article XIII
For the maintenance of the public force and for expenditures, contributions of women and men are equal, it will participate in all tasks at all strenuous activities, should therefore have its share in the distribution of posts, uses, and dignity of the office 's industry.
Article XIV
the citizens have the right to ascertain in person or through their representatives, the public need for the tax. The citizens can not accede to that condition of being admitted to the equal division, not only of worldly goods, but also in public administration, and to determine the amount, the tax base, tax collection and the duration.
Article XV
The mass of women, in payment of taxes coalesced with that of men, have the right to demand accountability at every public official of his administration.
Article XVI
Every society in which the guarantee of rights is not assured, nor the separation of powers is determined has no constitution, the constitution is void if the majority of the individuals who compose the nation, did not cooperate with its editors.
Article XVII
properties belonging to both sexes together or separate, they are each an inviolable and sacred, no one shall be deprived of nature as the true heritage, except when the need public, legally established, the demands to be clearly provided for a just and prior compensation.
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The Declaration of Women's Rights and Citizenship (title in French Déclaration des droits de la femme et de la Citoyenne) is a French legal text, which called for total assimilation of legal, political and social status of women , published in September 1791 by writer Olympe de Gouges on the model of the Declaration on the Rights of Man and Citizen of 1789 proclaimed 26 August of that year. First document to invoke the statutory and legal equality of women compared to men, the Declaration of Women's Rights and the town was published in order to be submitted to National Assembly be adopted.
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