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The Constitutional Declaration of Human Rights in Latin America and Its Internationalization

Allan R. Brewer–Carías-2008-12-22-Cambridge University Press eBooks
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The practice of declaring rights in the text of the constitutions began with constitutionalism itself, and with the very notion of constitution as a superior law, with the first Declaration of Rights in constitutional history adopted by the Convention of Virginia in 1776, at the beginning of the independence process of the American colonies; a practice that was subsequently followed by the other colonies. Those rights declared in the Bill of Rights of those colonies were “natural rights” in the sense of being “inherent rights” to all men, who by nature were declared “equally free and independent.”

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The practice of declaring rights in the text of the constitutions began with constitutionalism itself, and with the very notion of constitution as a superior law, with the first Declaration of Rights in constitutional history adopted by the Convention of Virginia in 1776, at the beginning of the independence process of the American colonies; a practice that was subsequently followed by the other colonies. Those rights declared in the Bill of Rights of those colonies were “natural rights” in the sense of being “inherent rights” to all men, who by nature were declared “equally free and independent.”

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