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Analyze how the French Revolution was impacted by Enlightenment ideas in the French document the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. Respond in 1–2 sentences.

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The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen translated Enlightenment principles—natural rights, popular sovereignty, equality before the law, separation of powers and individual liberty drawn from thinkers like Locke, Rousseau and Montesquieu—into a concise political program. By codifying these ideas, it provided the ideological justification for overthrowing the ancien régime and guided revolutionary reforms toward legal equality, civil rights, and limits on arbitrary authority.