<Tr> <Th> Publisher </Th> <Td> National Constituent Assembly </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Publication date </Th> <Td> 27 August 1789 </Td> </Tr> <P> The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (French: Déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen), set by France's National Constituent Assembly in 1789, is a document of the French Revolution and in the history of human civil rights . </P> <P> The Declaration was drafted by General Lafayette (sometimes with Thomas Jefferson) and Honoré Mirabeau . Influenced by the doctrine of "natural right", the rights of males are held to be universal: valid at all times and in every place, pertaining to human nature itself . It became the basis for a nation of free individuals protected equally by the law . It is included in the beginning of the constitutions of both the Fourth French Republic (1946) and Fifth Republic (1958) and is still current . Inspired by the Enlightenment philosophers, the Declaration was a core statement of the values of the French Revolution and had a major impact on the development of freedom and democracy in Europe and worldwide . </P>

Who made the declaration of rights of man