The Rights of Man made Man, not God or history, the source of law.

Evidence

THE DECLARATION of the Rights of Man at the end of the eighteenth century was a turning point in history. It meant nothing more nor less than that from then on Man, and not God’s command or the customs of history, should be the source of Law. Independent of the privileges which history had bestowed upon certain strata of society or certain nations, the declaration indicated man’s emancipation from all tutelage and announced that he had now come of age. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 705

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the philosophical turning point of the Rights of Man as man’s emancipation from tutelage — the premise whose failure the subsequent chapters will trace.
• XREF: Foundational to how the reader’s Islamophobia toolkit treats rights discourse and its failure for the stateless.