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• Translator’s Preface.
• Preface.
• The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizens.
• Chapter I: The French Declaration of Rights of August 26, 1789, and Its Significance.
• Chapter II.: Rousseau’s Contrat Social Was Not the Source of This Declaration.
• Chapter III.: The Bills of Rights of the Individual States of the North American Union Were Its Models.
• Chapter IV.: Virginia’s Bill of Rights and Those of the Other North American States.
• Chapter V.: Comparison of the French and American Declarations.
• Chapter VI.: The Contrast Between the American and English Declarations of Rights.
• Chapter VII.: Religious Liberty In the Anglo-american Colonies the Source of the Idea of Establishing By Law a Universal Right of Man.
• Chapter VIII.: The Creation of a System of Rights of Man and of Citizens During the American Revolution.
• Chapter IX.: The Rights of Man and the Teutonic Conception of Right.

TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE.

Although several years have elapsed since this essay was published, it has apparently come to the attention of only a few specialists, and those almost exclusively in modern European history. It deserves consideration by all students of history, and it is of special importance to those who are interested in the early constitutional history of the United States, for it traces the origin of the enactment of bills of rights. In the hope that it will be brought before a larger number of students who realize the significance of this question and who appreciate genuine scholarly work, this essay is now translated.

• Wesleyan University, Middletown, Ct.

, March 1, 1901.