"The representatives of the French people... believing that the ignorance, neglect, or contempt of the rights of man are the sole cause of public calamities and of the corruption of governments, have determined to set forth in a solemn declaration the natural, unalienable, and sacred rights of man, in order that this declaration... shall remind them continually of their rights and duties; in order that the acts of the legislative power, as well as those of the executive power, may be compared at any moment with the objects and purposes of all political institutions and may thus be more respected..."
- From The Declarations of the Rights of Man and of Citizen, 1789
This excerpt from The Declarations of the Rights of Man and of Citizen contains influences from what other 18th-century event?
A) The Seven Years' War
B) The French Revolution
C) The Haitian Revolution
D) The American Revolution