The US Constitution (above) and England
THE Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted in 1948 took inspiration from England’s 13th-century Magna Carta, the US Declaration of Independence of 1776, and France’s 1789 Rights of Man.
Unlike the others, however, the 1948 document is the first to say that all human beings are free and equal in “dignity” as well as rights.
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