Declaration of the Rights of the Man and of the Citizen of the French Republic (1789) (excerpts related to Fair Trial (Right to a)) (English)
DECLARATION OF HUMAN AND CIVIC RIGHTS OF 26 AUGUST 1789
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Article 7
No man may be accused, arrested or detained except in the cases determined by the Law, and following the procedure that it has prescribed. Those who solicit, expedite, carry out, or cause to be carried out arbitrary orders must be punished; but any citizen summoned or apprehended by virtue of the Law, must give instant obedience; resistance makes him guilty.
Article 8
The Law must prescribe only the punishments that are strictly and evidently necessary; and no one may be punished except by virtue of a Law drawn up and promulgated before the offense is committed, and legally applied.
Article 9
As every man is presumed innocent until he has been declared guilty, if it should be considered necessary to arrest him, any undue harshness that is not required to secure his person must be severely curbed by Law.
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