Article XVI – Any society in...
Article XVI – Any society in which the guarantee of rights is not assured, nor the separation of powers determined, has no Constitution.
Note
Source: Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789
Translation
(French, German, Italian, Spanish)
Art. XVI – Ogni società, nella quale la guarentigia dei diritti non è assicurata, nè la separazione dei poteri determinata, non è costituita.
Art. XVI – Toda Sociedad en la que la garantía de los Derechos no esté asegurada, ni la separación de poderes determinada, no tiene Constitución.
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Quotes about Human rights:
Article I – Men are born and remain free and equal in rights. Social distinctions can be founded only on the common good.
Article IV – Liberty consists of doing anything which does not harm others: thus, the exercise of the natural rights of each man has only those borders which assure other members of the society the enjoyment of these same rights. These borders can be determined only by the law.
Article II – The goal of any political association is the conservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, safety and resistance against oppression.
Article III – The principle of any sovereignty resides essentially in the Nation. No body, no individual can exert authority which does not emanate expressly from it.
Article V – The law has the right to forbid only actions harmful to society. Anything which is not forbidden by the law cannot be impeded, and no one can be constrained to do what it does not order.
Article VI – The law is the expression of the general will. All the citizens have the right of contributing personally or through their representatives to its formation. It must be the same for all, either that it protects, or that it punishes. All the citizens, being equal in its eyes, are equally admissible to all public dignities, places and employments, according to their capacity and without distinction other than that of their virtues and of their talents.
Quotes for: society
Article IV – Liberty consists of doing anything which does not harm others: thus, the exercise of the natural rights of each man has only those borders which assure other members of the society the enjoyment of these same rights. These borders can be determined only by the law.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.
Article V – The law has the right to forbid only actions harmful to society. Anything which is not forbidden by the law cannot be impeded, and no one can be constrained to do what it does not order.
Article XV – The society has the right of requesting account from any public agent of its administration.
when we say that a man is responsible for himself, we do not only mean that he is responsible for his own individuality, but that he is responsible for all men.
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