Declaration Of Rights

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Blake Norman Core 102: History and the Modern World Professor Greco 12/4/13 Rights, rights are the moral or legal entitlement to have, obtain, or act in a certain way. In history people around the world have fought, killed, and been killed over protecting, establishing, and enforcing rights. A right can be as simple as feeling a certain way, or very complex such as rights obtain to citizenship, and the right to due process. The US Bill of Rights, Franklin D Roosevelt’s “Four Freedoms”, and the UN’s Declaration of Human Rights are all examples of documents established to give civil rights to the oppressed, provide a clear guideline to live by, and establish a standard of achievement for all people. The US Bill of Rights was written…show more content…
One of the many efforts made by the UN is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, created under chairman Eleanor Roosevelt. The Deceleration consists of thirty rights that set the underlying basis for a democratic government and society. Of course with President FDR’s wife Eleanor Roosevelt as chairmen, much of the “Four Freedoms” see there way into the Declaration. Many of the rights enumerated in this Declaration are similar with the United States Bill of Rights. For example, Article 3 gives everyone the right to “life, liberty, and security of person” these values, for every human being, stem from the idea of John Locke and the framers of our US constitution. Many of the articles in the Declaration are things that United states citizens will never fear, ideas that need no place in our Bill of Rights and Constitution. For European nations trying to escape or deter themselves from communism many of these rights could only be wishes. For example, Article 27 gives everyone the right to participate in cultural life. In some nations in the Middle East or Eastern Europe, you are not aloud to enjoy whatever you want. The government can tell you what you may and may not watch, may or may not have faith in. The purpose of this Declaration is to set forth guidelines with a nation, a contract between a government and its…show more content…
Roosevelt’s “Four Freedoms”, and The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, builds upon each other. The Bill Of Rights, which was the first rights ever given to American citizens, changed their lives forever. President Roosevelt, realizing that what we have in America does not exist everywhere else, established his “Four Freedoms”. He wanted to see a world where people could be successful, protest peacefully, and practice their faith freely. He was spreading democratic ideas and values to the rest of the world. The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights appeared to do the same. Picking and creating rights and values of its own and from strong democratic governments established values that the whole world could live by. If every nation adopted these rights, humans wouldn’t have to worry about religious persecution, or the color of their skin, or the religion they chose to practice. The biggest idea you can get from all of these documents, rights, and values is that we are all striving to become better people and with that, creating a better world. The more good people we produce, the more rights we empower humans with, the less conflict we, and generations to come will

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