Module 1

Question 1

What are the three main ideas of human rights?

Answer 1

• Inalienable
• Universal
• Equal

Question 2

What is dignified life?

Answer 2

Basic conditions to human life

Question 3

What is the possession paradox?

Answer 3

We all have rights but don’t consider them until they are threatened

Question 4

When was the declaration of the rights of man and the citizen created?

Answer 4

1789 by the French constituent assembly

Question 5

When was the universal declaration of the rights man made?

Answer 5

1948

Question 6

When was the American declaration of freedom?

Answer 6

1776

Question 7

What were some historical circumstances for the idea of rights?

Answer 7

Capitalist expansion, hierarchies, feudal authoritarianism, bourgeois, war (religious), servitude and slavery, persecution of women (witch hunt)

Question 8

Who were Kondiaronk and Rousseau

Answer 8

• Kondiaronk was a 17th century Wendat intellectual who criticized European way of life
• Rosseau was a Euro scholar and was impressed by this view, wrote an essay on it inspiring conversations

Question 9

What were the 3 estates?

Answer 9

The French classes. 3rd was 98% of pop. (20m peasants). Broke off and started the revolution

Question 10

What are negative rights?

Answer 10

Rights that are obligatory, can’t be enforced or taken away. Civil and political

Question 11

What are positive rights?

Answer 11

Body of laws created and enforced. laws that require action. Reproductive rights

Question 12

What are Natural Rights/Laws?

Answer 12

Moral principles that form the basis of justice.

Question 13

When did Olympe de Gouges write the declaration of rights of women and the female citizen?

Answer 13

1791

Question 14

Challenge facing enslaved people

Answer 14

Belief that they read enlightenment and responded to revolution in france.

Question 15

Revolution in Guadeloupe and Haiti

Answer 15

• Guadeloupe wants french citizenship but freedom.
• 243 killed 22 and ransacked plantations, had support/sympathy of people
• Christophe appoints himself king in 1811, forced labour, suicide after lost support
• Haiti is the first nation to abolish slavery in 1794

Question 16

Challenge facing Women

Answer 16

• “Passive citizens”, unable to leave the domestic
• Olympe de Gouges executed in 1793
• Rosseau thought women should not venture out of the house
• Enlightenment did not consider women rational

Question 17

Both Challenges

Answer 17

Rights not immediately granted, had to claim these rights, galvanized by revolution.