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Notes in re international bill of rights project for Herbert F. Goodrich by Wm. D. Lewis. Aug. 12, 1943. [1] (1943)

handle is hein.ali/hrbor605117 and id is 1 raw text is: 3-12-4g Notes In Re International Bill of Rights Project For Herbert F. Goodrich By William Draper Lewis The institute began work on its Internation--l Bill of Rights Project more than a year ago. The title, International Bill of Rights Project, has the advantage of arousing the interest of the legal profession, but a-lso the disadvantage of having many members of the br assume that tlieir concept of a Bill of Rights correctly defines the object end scope of the Institute's work. The appropriate nime for the completed product has not yet been determined. The prim=ry thing that the Institute has cormmitted itself to try to do is to ascertain those individual rights, or if you prefer freedoms, rhich arc com.1on to Cnti-totaliterian thinking throughout the civilized world, irresiective of different national and cultural baczgrounds. For example, freedom of specch, liberty of religious belief and its expression, freedom from the fear of arrest and .rbitrary imprison- ment, and freedom from the fear of want are the things re in tis count-J have in the back part of our head6 when we think of a man as a free man. Are they likewise component p,,.rts of the concept of individual freedom held by the people in other parts bf the rorld? The Institute believes it is important to .cnow this before we enter, after victory is won, into the tLsk of cooperating ;ith our allies and other peoples to lay the foundation of a reasonably just and endurable peace. When the 6dject of the Institute's inquiry is explained, there are many rho as4 the ouestion: When the Institute has found out the similLrities and the differences throughout the orld in the concept of esventital individual freedoms, what-is the Institute going to do? Is it going to tell how they zre to be -1-