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18.4
The Declaration of Independence on the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen share a number of
similarities particularly in their general statements about the nature and justification of government The
first was written in 1776; the second was promulgated fifteen years later, in 1791. The French revolutionaries were well aware of events in America and sympathetic to the colonists' cause so it is hardly an
undue speculation to reason that their thoughts and actions were stimulated by the American example.
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