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46 Va. J. Int'l L. 501 (2005-2006)
When You State a Moral Principle, You Are Stuck with It: The 1941 Atlantic Charter as a Human Rights Instrument

handle is hein.journals/vajint46 and id is 511 raw text is: When You State a Moral Principle, You Are Stuck With It: The 1941 Atlantic Charter as a Human Rights Instrument ELIZABETH BORGWARDT* I. Introduction ............................................................................... 50 1 II. It Became the Classic Statement of Allied Principles....: Negotiating the Atlantic Charter ............................................... 510 III. Haunted by the Ghost of Woodrow Wilson: Prelude to the A tlantic C onference ................................................................... 513 IV. Certain Principles on Which They Base Their Hopes for a B etter W orld. ........................................................................... 5 16 V. When You State a Moral Principle, You Are Stuck with It.. 526 VI. Are We Fighting for Security of Europeans to Enjoy the Four Freedom s?. ...................................................................... 531 VII. Political vs. Economic Rights: Some Day It Will Dawn upon Us That All the Clauses in the Preamble to the Constitution Are Worth Fighting for ...................................... 533 VIII. Human Rights as a Term of Art: To Preserve Human Rights and Justice in Their Own Lands as Well as in Other Lands.... 540 IX. Beyond Human Rights as An Isolated Block of Concepts .... 546 X. The Atlantic Charter Is Not a Law, It Is a Star ................ 553 Appendix: The Atlantic Charter ....................................................... 561 I. INTRODUCTION The sunny Sunday morning of August 10, 1941, found President Franklin Roosevelt undertaking his longest public walk since * Associate Professor of International History without tenure, Washington University in St. Louis; Visiting Scholar, Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard University. This paper was presented on October 24, 2004, at the Sokol Colloquium in Private International Law at the University of Virginia School of Law.

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