Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, 1791 Student’s Name Institutional Affiliation Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, 1791 As I read through the document, I was struck by several things about the rights being demanded. One thing is that almost all of the rights are based on the belief that every individual, by virtue of humanity, is entitled to certain human rights, including the rights of resistance to oppression, private property, liberty, and the inviolability of the person (Class notes, n.d.). Another thing is that the scope and claim of rights being demanded to go beyond the traditional models that were based on individual groups,