Just over a month following the storming of the Bastille, the formerly Third Estate, representatives of the French common people, now the National Assembly, created a charter to outline the beginnings of a new Constitution for France and declare the inalienable rights of each Frenchman. Despite changing its constitution and form of government multiple times during the following two centuries, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen holds constitutional weight along side with France’s modern Constitution.
