Read the excerpt below from the declaration of the rights of man and of the
citizen, a document that expressed many of the most important ideas that
motivated the french revolution. which of the generalizations that follow the
excerpt accurately describes this excerpt's key 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 nrorced 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 expect those which assure to the other members of the society the enjoyment of the same rights these limits can only be determined by law 5. law can only prohibit such actions as are hurtful to society nothing may be prevented which is not forbidden by law and no one may be forced to do anything not provided for by law