Now that you’ve completed this unit, how would you answer these questions?

• Which current rights are the least protected in different countries? Why?
• How/why were “rights” during the Enlightenment limited in application? (gender, race, age, etc.)
• Are we sure that rights are “given by God” v. “human inventions” that are then “sanctified”?

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What Are Human Rights? The History of Ideas	Historical Documents and Human Rights	Order v. Freedom: The Patriot Act and the Enabling Act	World War II: A Legacy of Human Rights	American Revolution v. French Revolution

US Bill of Rights and the UDHR	Building a Constitution	Natural Rights	Political Upheaval and the Security of Human Rights

Magna Carta from The British Library English Petition of Right English Bill of Rights Declaration of Independence Declaration of Independence (pdf) US Constitution US Bill of Rights US Bill of Rights (pdf) US Constitutional Amendments 11 - 27 Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet) Voltaire’s Philosophical Dictionary Jean-Jacques Rousseau Rousseau's The Social Contract John Locke Oath of the Tennis Court Locke's The Second Treatise of Civil Government John Locke: Chapter 2. The State of Nature (pdf) Great Voyages, The History of Western Philosophy Thomas Hobbes Hobbes' Moral and Political Philosophy Universal Declaration of Human Rights Universal Declaration of Human Rights (pdf) Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen French Constitution of 1791 IrinNews.org     (UN project: humanitarian news & analysis) A More Perfect Union: Shaping American Government     Choices for the 21st Century Education Program,     Watson Institute for International Studies     at Brown University (pdf file)

Unit III. Human Rights in International Law

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