THE FRENCH DECLARATION OF 1789 AND MODERN DEMOCRACY

Abstract

Historical confirm the superior value ethical principles formulated in 1789 and the principles that were completed in the same vein of thought. Despite serious violations of law in the world, despite the weaknesses and criticisms, what after two centuries surprising is the sustainability principles in 1789, not only in their ideology but also in its dynamics. It is important that the spread of human rights and freedoms associated with the realization of the rule of law, giving it a democratic character. The value of the Declaration of 1789 is not in the list of rights and freedoms, but also the principles on which they can find solutions to new phenomena.

The modern notion of democracy is tied to the idea of popular sovereignty and human rights appears for the first time in the West, the bourgeois revolution. When the French revolutionaries of that time was the prevailing belief that they create not only a new social order, but a new nation, a new breed of people, a new man. Even today, human rights and the sovereignty of the nation's two key features of modern democracy. In addition, the establishment of a democratic political space which is a primary requirement for learning democracy, one of the main achievements of the French Revolution and the Declaration resulting from it.