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This connects to the Enlightenment Thinker Montesquieu who believed that people should be involved in their government. He introduced checks and balances to equally distribute power amongst citizens. He thinks everyone is born as an equal and as you grow up you become your best self. (discover "virtues & talents")

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This reflects the Enlightenment idea of natural rights and equality, advocated by thinkers like John Locke and Jean Jacques. Locke argued for natural rights to life, liberty, and property, believing that governments exist to protect these rights.

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"Men are born and remain free and equal in rights. Social distinctions may be founded only upon the general good."

It connects to John Locke's, an important thinker during the Enlightenment, ideas of natural rights. It connects to Rousseau's social contract ideas, which states that everyone should benefit from governmental structures.

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This document embodies the Enlightenment Thinker John Locke, who believed that all people are born good, and therefore, everyone is naturally endowed with rights by God. Those rights were the right of life, liberty, and property, which are seen in this Declaration.

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A main cause of the French revolution was the large and unsustainable amount of taxes that fell on the lower class. This article states that the costs of public forces and administrations should be distributed even throughout the people, making those who are on the lower class, able to pay the taxes along with caring for themselves and their families.

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This connects to the French Revolution because the lower classes were taxed greatly by the Church and government, while the higher classes were exempt from the taxation. This was not the commoners choice, and they had no freedom to say the taxation was unequal. This anger caused conflicts in the Revolution, which is why the National Assembly put that people should have the freedom to decide the taxation in the 14th Article.

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This article connects to Enlightenment thinker John Locke who argued for the protection of all people's natural rights, which are Life, Liberty and property by the government.

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This article states that the King holds absolute power and no one can question that. The lower classes were underrepresented in the government and their conflicts and issues were never considered or resolved. They pushed to be more well-represented and gained more power to lead the Revolution.

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Baron Montesquieu connects to this quotation because one of his biggest ideas was about the separation of powers and how separation of powers allowed the government to keep itself in check with checks and balances.

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"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"

This connects to the causes of the revolution because this is an example of one of the most unfair aspects of the previous government, which was the king's divine right to absolute power. This absolute power oppressed the lower class and made life in France extremely difficult.

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Article 13 relates to the taxes being equally distributed among the people, while before that, one cause of the French Revolution was the unequal amount people got taxed, as the Third Estate paid all the taxes, while the higher Estates didn't, and this relates to a cause of the French Revolution.

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"The free communication of ideas and opinion is one of the most precious of the rights of man" (11). Voltaire was a huge believer in the idea of free speech and religion as a basic human necessity.

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This connects to the issue of unequal taxation, which was a major issue during the French revolution. The Third Estate took on the burden of taxation, while the nobility and clergy were exempt. The 3rd estate resented paying taxes that supported the lavish lifestyles of the rich and costly wars, such as French support for American Revolution. The poor struggled to pay taxes especially when combined with high bread prices and food shortages. This article states that taxes are paid by all citizens.

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This is a direct response to the resented and unfair system of taxation. The document requires people to know what the money is going to and fix the proportion which people are taxed. After how horribly the French dealt with classes and taxation people were quick to add something to insure it won't happen again.

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"A society in which the observance of the law is not assured, nor the separation of powers defined, has no constitution at all" (Article 16). This connects to the enlightenment thinker Baron de Montesquieu because his belief was that power should separate into 3 branches and there should be checks and balances.

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"[people] are equally eligible to all dignities … without destination except that of their virtues and talents" (6). This connects to the French revolution because people were buying their way to powerful military and government positions for the "swag" which caused for nothing to be done making the commoners revolt.

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"Law is the expression of the general will. Every citizen has a right to participate personally, or through his representative, in its foundation. It must be the same for all, whether it protects or punishes. All citizens, being equal in the eyes of the law, are equally eligible to all dignities and to all public positions and occupations, according to their abilities, and without distinction except that of their virtues and talents."

Article 6 shows dislike of the rigid Estates system where nobles and clergy had privileges while commoners had no power. This article aimed to patch the distrust between the 3rd estate and the upper social class.

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Quotation.:  No one shall be disquieted on account of his opinions, including his religious views, provided their manifestation does not disturb the public order established by law

Connection: This connects to Voltaire because he believed in freedom of thought and respect for all individuals, and religion.