Human rights and social policy in the 21st century : a history of the idea of human rights and comparison of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights with United States federal and state constitutions
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Human rights and social policy in the 21st century : a history of the idea of human rights and comparison of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights with United States federal and state constitutions
University Press of America, c1992
- : hbk
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-259) and indexes
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Description
This volume traces the history and practice of human rights from ancient times until the present. It identifies major sources and stages of this quest, which has culminated in this century in the unopposed adoption, by the United Nation, of a Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This Declaration is gradually being perceived as customary international law and as a standard by which the policies and practices of different societies ought to be guided and judged. An important aspect of Dr Wronka's study is a comparison of human rights as defined by the United Declaration on the one hand, and by the Constitutions of the United States and its 50 States on the other. This comparison reveals significant gaps between the standards of the Universal Declaration and those of the American Constitution, and the policies and practices based on them.
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