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| | '''Article the 1st''' Men are born and remain free and equal in rights. The social distinctions can be founded only on the common utility. | | '''Article the 1st''' Men are born and remain free and equal in rights. The social distinctions can be founded only on the common utility. |
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| − | '''Article 2''' The goal of any political association is the conservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of the man. These rights are {personal}freedom [liberty], the {ownership of} property, {personal}safety and resistance [the ability to resist] to oppression. | + | '''Article 2''' The goal of any political association is the conservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of the man. These rights are {personal}freedom [liberty], the {ownership of} [[property]], {personal}safety and resistance [the ability to resist] to oppression. |
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| | '''Article 3''' The principle of any sovereignty lies primarily in the nation as a whole. No body nor individual can exert authority which does not emanate from it expressly. | | '''Article 3''' The principle of any sovereignty lies primarily in the nation as a whole. No body nor individual can exert authority which does not emanate from it expressly. |
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| | '''Article 16''' Any society in which the guarantee of {human} rights is not assured, nor the separation of powers set forth, has no {legal} constitution. | | '''Article 16''' Any society in which the guarantee of {human} rights is not assured, nor the separation of powers set forth, has no {legal} constitution. |
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| − | '''Article 17''' Property{rights} being inviolable and sacred, one cannot lose the private use of property, if there is no public necessity, legally noted, required obviously, and under the condition of a just reimbursment as a predicate {to the taking}. | + | '''Article 17''' Property{rights} being inviolable and sacred, one cannot lose the private use of property, if there is no public necessity, legally noted, required obviously, and under the condition of a just reimbursment as a predicate {to the taking}. |
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| | ==French text== | | ==French text== |