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Director's revised suggested preliminary draft of report to council. Dec. 8, 1943. [1] (1943)

handle is hein.ali/hrbor605434 and id is 1 raw text is: December 8, 1945 Bill of Rights Director's Revised Suggested Preliminary Draft of Report to Council We understrnd that the object of our appointment was to ascertain if re could agree on the rights essential to the freedom of the individual and, if so, frame a statement of such rights, The draft of a statement of individual rights submitted herewith is the product of our effort to carry out our undertadng. Representing as we do by birth, education. end experience many different peoples having vtrying cultural ideas, our'discussions have shown the bcsic similarity of our respective concepts of those freedoms the possession of the right to which is essential to the freedom of the individual. The draft submitted is the result of several conferences each lasting two or three days supplemented by meetings of subcommittees appointed to deal with the special aspects of the work. Our source material, prepared for end submitted to us by the Director in November 1242, consisted primarily of existing national constitutional, legislative and executive provisions and pronouncements; secondarily, it consisted of opinions of public officers End of private associations and individuals. Last June we arranged for a Subcommittee to prepare in the light of our prior deliberations a complete draft which has been submitted to end revised by us. The attempt has been to state the least common denominator of what all democratic peoples would regard es the necessr-j essentials of governmental sefe- guards of individual freedom. There is nothing novel in any of the articles. References to similar existing constitutional provisions ere included in the comments

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