By his side was the yet youthful Lafayette, seconding the demand, which he followed by proposing a Declaration of the Rights of Man, embodying not merely specific rights secured by precedent and practice, as in the English Bill of Rights, but the Rights of Man founded on Nature, and above all precedent or practice.
Sumner highlights Lafayette's role in proposing a Declaration of the Rights of Man, emphasizing natural rights over legal precedents.
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Consent of the governed necessary in forming new governments of, XII. 298.
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