ДЕКЛАРАЦИЈА О ПРАВИМА ЧОВЕКА И ГРАБАНИНА ОД 1789. КАО АКТ ЦИВИЛИЗАЦИЈЕ
DECLARATION OF RIGHTS OF MAN AND THE CITIZEN OF 1789. AS AN ACT OF CIVILIZATION

Summary/Abstract: French Declaration of Rights of Man and the Citizen of 1789. is an act of civilization in the history of makind. Basic inspiration of the creators of the Declaration is found in the philosophy of XVIII century and in the entire spiritual movement of the times. The universal character of that philosophy (and of thinking in general), its radical nature, its progressive orientation in the society, as well as its democratic element, have prepared the soil giving rise to the Declaration. This is why it was not just another piece of legislation or a collection of rights guaranteed by the State. It has been much more than that and much more different. This is why it has been concluded in theory that the Declaration has been „the most conspicuous fact in the history of creation of republican and democratic ideas". In fact, the Declaration has been an expression of the best ideas of Locke, 'Montesquieu, Rousseau and other great philosophers of the XVII and XVIII centuries, an expression materializing those ideas both for the present and the future. The Declaration practically proclaims the principles of universal importance and of permanent value, thus becoming oriented towards the entire world and towards the future, in spite of the fact that it has been enacted ‘in one country only. The French Declaration of Rights found an enormous echo in the general world public; it effected great influence in the sphere of development of constitutionality in the world, but also and the sphere of political practice, legal and political theories and ideas in general. It has become, as noted in the theory, „a foundation of the modem constitutional law”, and a part of democratic political thinking and philosophy of democracy as such. These are the reasons of its being an act of civilization.

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