The French Revolution fused human rights with national sovereignty

Evidence

In this conviction, which could base itself on the fact that the French Revolution had combined the declaration of the Rights of Man with national sovereignty, they were supported by the Minority Treaties themselves, which did not entrust the governments with the protection of different nationalities but charged the League of Nations with the safeguarding of the rights of those who, for reasons of territorial settlement, had been left without national states of their own. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 675

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• XREF: The historical grounding for the Rights of Man/national sovereignty fusion — the linchpin Arendt’s whole statelessness argument pivots on.
• QUESTION: Worth chasing how exactly the 1789 Declaration text encodes this fusion, to see whether Arendt’s reading is contestable.

Related

• The French Revolution fused human rights with national sovereignty, making statelessness mean rightlessness. (similarity 0.89)
• The inalienable rights of the abstract individual were immediately fused with national sovereignty (similarity 0.82)
• Stateless people exposed the myth that older nations protected human rights inherently (similarity 0.80)
• Human rights were from the start subordinated to national self-determination. (similarity 0.78)
• The Rights of Man were only ever enforced as national rights, not universal ones (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• The inalienable rights of the abstract individual were immediately fused with national sovereignty #corroborates (0.95) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 708
• The French Revolution was reinterpreted through a history-of-races lens early in the nineteenth century #complicates (0.72) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 6955