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Just a cursory look at the UN’s so-called Universal Declaration of Human Rights will show how frighteningly close they are to the “rights” that the USSR’s constitution (from 1936 and 1977) promised, while leaving big holes for the totalitarianism to walk through.

The UN’s joke of a document dates back to December 1948; the Wikipedia article on it shows Eleanor Roosevelt (one of its authors) holding up a Spanish-language copy. Really shows how sympathetic the most powerful in this country were to communism, even going back that far.

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Not trying to defend the UN’s document, only noting some differences:

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a generic document, and a bit of a “motherhood statement”, which is not country-specific. It is supposed to cover a broad range of “universal” issues, such as: freedoms, justices, international relations, and so on.. promoting utopian vision & aims - also, it was written in 1948, post-WWII.

The US Constitution & the Bill of Rights, OTOH, were written nearly 2 centuries earlier (1789?), in a completely different historical, political and cultural context, very specific to the US, herself.

Hard to compare the two. But, factually, I agree with Livius: “that many countries accept international treaties as superior to their own law. This is, in fact, one of their legal principles, and it’s what gives the UN and other such bodies so much clout.”