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Draft of report to council. [1] (1943)

handle is hein.ali/hrbor605436 and id is 1 raw text is: Draft of Report to Council The object of our appointment was to ascertain if we could agree on the rights essential to the freedom of the individual and, if so, frame a statement of such rights. The accompanying draft is the product of our effort to carry out our assignment.. We represent by birth, education, and experience many different peoples having barying cultural ideas. Our discussions have shown the basic similarity of our respective concepts of those rights which are essential to the freedom of the individual. At this crucial moment in human history when± new concepts upon which the future development of man and society are being we are grateful for the opportunity to express the fundamental needs and aspirations of men. The draft is the result of several conferences each lasting two or three days supplemented by meetings of subcommittees appointed to deal with the subdivisions of the work. Our source material, prepared for and submitted to us by the Director in November 1942, consisted primarily of current or pre-Fascist national constitutions, exeuctive 'm pronouncements, and international documents; secondarily, it consisted of opinions of public officers and of private associations and individuals. The attempt has been to state the least common denominator of what all democratic peoples would regard as the essential governmental safeguards of individual freedom. There is nothing novel in any of the articles. References to provisions in existing constitutions are included in the comments to the separate articles. And although some of the articles - particularly those dealing with social rights - are not contained in the Constitution of the United States', all of them are expressed either in federal legislation or in the constitutions or statutes of the states. Nor will the British find any innovations.

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