He could have also been thinking about the Declaration of Independence, the Declaration of the Rights of Man, and various other documents. (I’d list the Magna Carta, but it didn’t really have the effect it’s credited with. It was a few lines in a larger document that was more concerned with the hunting privileges of nobles than with the rights of man, and that was nullified before the year was out.)
He could have also been thinking about the Declaration of Independence, the Declaration of the Rights of Man, and various other documents. (I’d list the Magna Carta, but it didn’t really have the effect it’s credited with. It was a few lines in a larger document that was more concerned with the hunting privileges of nobles than with the rights of man, and that was nullified before the year was out.)