![]() For maintenance of public authority and for expenses of administration, taxation of women and men is equal she takes part in all forced labor service, in all painful tasks she must therefore have the same proportion in the distribution of places, employments, offices, dignities, and in industry.ġ4. These powers are instituted for the advantage of all and not for the private benefit of those to whom they are entrusted.ġ3. The safeguard of the rights of woman and the citizeness requires public powers. Every citizeness may therefore say freely, I am the mother of your child a barbarous prejudice should not force her to hide the truth, so long as responsibility is accepted for any abuse of this liberty in cases determined by the law. The free communication of thoughts and opinions is one of the most precious of the rights of woman, since this liberty assures the recognition of children by their fathers. No one should be disturbed for his fundamental opinions woman has the right to mount the scaffold, so she should have the right equally to mount the rostrum, provided that these manifestations do not trouble public order as established by law.ġ1. Any woman being declared guilty, all rigor is exercised by the law.ġ0. Only strictly and obviously necessary punishments should be established by the law, and no one may be punished except by virtue of a law established and promulgated before the time of the offense, and legally applied to women.ĩ. No woman is exempted she is indicted, arrested and detained in the cases determined by the law. All citizenesses and citizens, being equal in its eyes, should be equally admissible to all public dignities, offices and employments, according to their ability, and with no other distinction than that of their virtues and talents.ħ. All citizenesses and citizens should take part, in person or by their representatives, in its formation. The law should be the expression of the general will. No hindrance should be put in the way of anything not prohibited by these wise and divine laws, nor may anyone be forced to do what they do not require.Ħ. The laws of nature and reason prohibit all actions which are injurious to society. ![]() Liberty and justice consist in restoring all that belongs to another hence the exercise of the natural rights of woman has no other limits than those that the perpetual tyranny of man opposes to them these limits must be reformed according to the laws of nature and reason.ĥ. No body and no individual may exercise authority which does not emanate expressly from the nation.Ĥ. The principle of all sovereignty rests essentially in the nation, which is but the reuniting of woman and man. These rights are liberty, property, security and especially resistance to oppression.ģ. The purpose of all political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of woman and man. Social distinctions may be based only on common utility.Ģ. Woman is born free and remains equal to man in rights. ![]() In consequence, the sex that is superior in beauty as in courage, needed in maternal sufferings, recognizes and declares, in the presence and under the auspices of the Supreme Being, the following rights of woman and the citizeness.ġ. Considering that ignorance, neglect or contempt for the rights of woman are the sole causes of public misfortunes and governmental corruption, they have resolved to set forth in a solemn declaration the natural, inalienable and sacred rights of woman: so that by being constantly present to all the members of the social body this declaration may always remind them of their rights and duties so that by being liable at every moment to comparison with the aim of any and all political institutions the acts of women's and men's powers may be the more fully respected and so that by being founded henceforward on simple and incontestable principles the demands of the citizenesses may always tend toward maintaining the constitution, good morals, and the general welfare. Mothers, daughters, sisters, female representatives of the nation ask to be constituted as a national assembly. To be decreed by the National Assembly in its last sessions or by the next legislature.
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