The Underground Man: The Rights of Man
Reading these, it’s interesting to see where they echo the Declaration of Independence and Constitution and where they differ. I especially like Article 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 except those which assure to the other members of the society the enjoyment of the same rights. These limits can only be determined by law.
The language seems a little stilted, and I assume it’s the translation (in article 4, I think anything makes more sense than everything.
And this document acknowledges a Supreme Being explicitly, rather than a Creator (which need be a Being at all).
It would be interesting to compare and contrast these documents from different countries: where do various cultures draw the line between rights and responsibilities?