Transcription of Report of the Commission on Unalienable Rights
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Report of the Commission on Unalienable Rights Report of the Commission on Unalienable Rights Report OF THE Commission ON Unalienable RIGHTS2 Table of Contents PREFATORY NOTE 4 I. INTRODUCTION 5 II. THE DISTINCTIVE AMERICAN Rights TRADITION 8 A. The Declaration of Independence 9 B. The Constitution 15 C. Lincoln s Return to the Declaration 18 D. Post Civil War Reforms 20 E. America s Founding Principles and the World 25 III. COMMITMENTS TO INTERNATIONAL Rights PRINCIPLES 27 A. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the United States 29 B. Reading the Universal Declaration 30 C. Persistent Questions Regarding the UDHR 33 1. National Sovereignty and Human Rights 33 2. Relation of Civil and Political Rights to Economic and Social Rights 33 3.
report of the commission on unalienable rights 2 7. table of contents . prefatory note 4 i. introduction 5 ii. the distinctive american rights tradition 8 . a.
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