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General. Re: provenance of the international bill of rights. [i] (1944)

handle is hein.ali/hrbor605317 and id is 1 raw text is: December 12, 1944 Hon. Norris C. Bakke Supreme Court Denver Colorado Dear Chief JusticeBa~ke: I have received your letter of December 6 and note that you expect to attend the National Peace Conference of the Federal Council of Churches at Cleveland, January l6-l9~, The positio. of The Amrican Law In.;titute in regard to its work on this subject should,- I thinks. be clearly understood. The Institute never undertook to draft an International Bill of Rights. That they have done in order to lay a found- ation for intelligent work on an International Bill of Rights was to appoint, now nearly three years ago, a committee composed of representatives of the principal -cultures of the world to see how far the could unite on what were essential human rights. Last February the committee made a final report and a-formal statement of the agreements they had reached in regard to essential human rights. The Council of the Institute realize that as this document contains several rights not in our own Federal and State Constitutional Bills of Bignts, especially those relating to social rights, that any attempt on the part of the liu-titute to itself draft an International Bill of Rights would produce arguments at the Annual Bleeting which would inevitably tend to degenerate into a political argument. They, therefore, decided to print the report of the committee with a statement that with the report this concluded the work of the Institute as in their opinion it was not prac- ticable for the Institute to attempt to draft an International Bill of Rights. Te Annual Ueeting of the Institute last May acquiesced in this action.

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