Question by wheezer: What are 5 things in common between the US Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
For Honors History, I need to compare the Constitution and the UDHR. What are 5 points in the Declaration that are also clearly stated in the Constitution?
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Answer by George S
There are similarities but the UDHR is much more idealized. It also gives a loophole I’m sure is used regularly by political leaders around the world. Politicians everywhere are what I call masters of expedience and will continually have crisis allowing them exceptions of all kinds even if they must manufacture the crisis.
Our Bill of Rights was created separately from the Constitution by an opposing faction (anti-Federalist farmers and tradesmen) to the people sponsoring the Constitution (Federalist Party bankers and merchants). Those rights were intended as protection against the Constitution and the people who sponsored it. Included was citizens rights to military weapons for forcing those rights when they were threatened by governments.
The UDHR is far to idealistic and dependent on the UN to enforce. There is no guarantee to arms for the people to enforce it against governments and the UN if even they violate it. They are far too unreliable to be trusted and so is any governing group. I suspect the main function of the UDHR is to provide HRC members fat salaries and secure bureaucratic positions to pretend they are actually doing something worthwhile when it actually futile.
None of it will hold up as resources again become strained by the still-grossly overpopulating cultures around the world. Expanding hordes of desperate people has always caused most wars. The propaganda involved is just to rationalize what the burgeoning hordes must do anyway: slaughter their neighbors and take their land for coming generations with even larger populations.
Instead of wasting their time with this kind of empty words making futile proclamations they should focus on promoting birth control everywhere. The world needs to shed 4 billion or more people before any hope of sustained peace and cooperation is possible.
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