In 1791, the Bill of rights was ratified. This term designs the first ten amendments of the US constitution. It has been ratified to reassure people against a federal government. This Bill of rights limits the power of the government and gives different individual rights to the people. The main rights that the Bill of rights gives are: the freedom of speech, the freedom of press, the freedom of religion, the freedom of meeting, the freedom to bear arms, and the freedom to own private property. 157 years later, the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights was ratified. In 1945, at the end of World War II, the United Nations was created. At this occasion, a Charter has been written to guarantee World’s peace. Therefore, another text
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The Bill of rights has been made to calm the anti-federalist; the ten amendments control the government’s power and give basic freedom to citizens. They are the basic rights in the US. Conversely, the UDHR has been written to prevent a new conflict to happen. The goal was to remind in a worldwide level the fundamental Human rights. Also, even if the last one has been written following the Western culture, the base of it corresponds more to European culture and explain why there is that much difference between the …show more content…
The main goal of the Bill of rights is to give more rights to citizens; at the time of its writing it was also to reassure the anti-federalist and to assure them that the government will have limited power. Otherwise, the main goal of the UDHR was to gather every country after the end of World War II. This text was written to remember the fundamental rights for each person no matter their religion, skin color, etc. These reasons explain why the government seems to have a total different aspect between these two texts. In the Bill of Rights, the government has a small role. Each state in the US can make its own rules, and the rights of each citizen are considering as very important to respect. The government has more a role to preserve citizen’s rights or take care of international matter. The government rarely creates national expect for specific case like the right of abortion, the same-sex marriage, etc. At the opposite according to the UDHR, the government seems more involve in citizen’s life. This kind of government is more social democrat and correspond more to European’s politics view than American’s Politics view. This explains why some social aspect, such as the education for free or free healthcare system is considered as a right while it is not including in the US Constitution. However, the UDHR has no legal scope and represent no specific country. Indeed we can see
The Bill of rights has been made to calm the anti-federalist; the ten amendments control the government’s power and give basic freedom to citizens. They are the basic rights in the US. Conversely, the UDHR has been written to prevent a new conflict to happen. The goal was to remind in a worldwide level the fundamental Human rights. Also, even if the last one has been written following the Western culture, the base of it corresponds more to European culture and explain why there is that much difference between the …show more content…
The main goal of the Bill of rights is to give more rights to citizens; at the time of its writing it was also to reassure the anti-federalist and to assure them that the government will have limited power. Otherwise, the main goal of the UDHR was to gather every country after the end of World War II. This text was written to remember the fundamental rights for each person no matter their religion, skin color, etc. These reasons explain why the government seems to have a total different aspect between these two texts. In the Bill of Rights, the government has a small role. Each state in the US can make its own rules, and the rights of each citizen are considering as very important to respect. The government has more a role to preserve citizen’s rights or take care of international matter. The government rarely creates national expect for specific case like the right of abortion, the same-sex marriage, etc. At the opposite according to the UDHR, the government seems more involve in citizen’s life. This kind of government is more social democrat and correspond more to European’s politics view than American’s Politics view. This explains why some social aspect, such as the education for free or free healthcare system is considered as a right while it is not including in the US Constitution. However, the UDHR has no legal scope and represent no specific country. Indeed we can see