Universal law
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In law and ethics, universal law or universal principle refers as concepts of legal legitimacy actions, whereby those principles and rules for governing human beings’ conduct which are most universal in their acceptability, their applicability, translation, and philosophical basis, are therefore considered to be most legitimate. They are universal and absolute.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Universal Declaration of Human Rights | |
Eleanor Roosevelt with the Spanish version of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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Created | 1948 |
Ratified | 10 December 1948 |
Location | Palais de Chaillot, Paris |
Authors | John Peters HumphreyRené CassinP. C. Chang (China), Charles Malik (Lebanon), Eleanor Roosevelt (United States), among others (Canada), (France), |
Purpose | Human rights |
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[edit] Conception
European philosophers of the Age of Enlightenment developed theories of natural law that influenced the adoption of documents such as the Bill of Rights of England, the Bill of Rights in the United States, and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen in France.