Declaration of Independence and Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

Its major influence was Thomas Jefferson who actually introduced it. one other influence of the document was the natural right doctrine which stated that man’s rights ought to be universal, valid in every place and at all times and pertaining to the nature of humans (Janis, Mark W. The two documents hold similar themes in regard to the rights of individual’s citizens in the United States. The documents hold the theme that all individual citizens are entitled to certain human rights. These include the statements that recognize the universality of these rights since all men are equal in creation thus the rights should never be alienated. The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass has the tone as well as the feel of some form of personal revolution.