Two hundred and fifty years ago today, the Continental Congress appointed a Committee of Five to propose a declaration explaining why the colonies were breaking from Great Britain: John Adams of ...
In February 1947, a group consisting of Eleanor Roosevelt, Pen-Chun Chang and Charles Malik began drafting the International Bill of Human Rights. With assistance of the UN Secretariat, the task of ...
On this day in 1776, Virginia adopted the Virginia Declaration of Rights, drafted largely by George Mason, a man who rarely left home but whose words traveled far.
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