TABLE OF CONTENTS.

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I. The French Declaration of Rights of August 26, 1789, and its Significance [1]
II. Rousseau's "Contrat Social" was not the Source of this Declaration [8]
III. The Bills of Rights of the Individual States of the North American Union were its Models [13]
IV. Virginia's Bill of Rights and those of the other North American States [22]
V. Comparison of the French and American Declarations [27]
VI. The Contrast between the American and English Declarations of Rights [43]
VII. Religious Liberty in the Anglo-American Colonies the Source of the Idea of Establishing
by Law a Universal Right of Man
[59]
VIII. The Creation of a System of Rights of Man and of Citizens during the American Revolution [78]
IX. The Rights of Man and the Teutonic Conception of Right [90]