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Declaration of Independence: Human Rights
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Review the Declaration of Independence with students, and have them identify the specific arguments for independence. For example, the king "called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures." The king ... "dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people."
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights will be 50 years old next month. Its 30 articles set forth an impressive and diverse catalog of rights, ranging from equality before the law through freedom from torture and the right to a fair trial to economic rights. Events around the world will celebrate its adoption by the U.N. General Assembly on Dec. 10, 1948.
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The Declaration of Independence is ... important because it says the simple ideas that the people who made the USA believe. It says that every person has rights (to life, to liberty, and to follow happiness) and that the government has to listen to the people. These things are what makes America a free country.
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The Declaration of the Seneca Falls Convention, using the model of the US Declaration of Independence, forthrightly demanded that the rights of women as right-bearing individuals be acknowledged and respectd by society. It was signed by sixty-eight women and thirty-two men.
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The most famous items in the library's collection include first printings of the Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, United States Constitution, and Bill of Rights, as well as George Washington's personal copy of the Federalist Papers. Other notable objects include a range of books, letters, and miscellaneous items relating to Theodore Roosevelt, who was a friend and, at one point, colleague of Chapin in the New York State Assembly.[30]
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Just as Lincoln did with the Declaration of Independence, human rights advocates have used the Declaration of Human Rights as leverage. They gradually incorporated its key principles into both domestic constitutions and international treaties.
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