UN Declaration of Human Rights

To me, the United Nations Declaration of Human Right has a mix of many other codes and laws that we have read about this year. When making this declaration of rights, they basically looked at what worked in the past and modernized it and put it into their own declaration of human rights. When they would see something that didn't work in the past, they would make changed accordingly or just ignore it altogether. A lot of the codes that were put into place a while back tended to give very specific laws based on very specific crimes. I think that the UN Declaration of Human Rights is much more broad covering a much wider spectrum of laws and crimes. The only thing about anything being on the broad side is that it can also leave room for interpretation. Some people might take it the wrong way but I think that the UN Declaration of Human Rights (is there an abbreviation for this?) does a good job in being clear and to the point without being overly specific.


It is good that this declaration is more broad because it also can be used in most time periods to come. Unless people's view of the world changes drastically in the next few centuries, then we will probably need a knew declaration of Human Rights. I think that it is important for the declaration of human rights to always be open for adding things because chances are that there are going to be things that are going to need to be added. But overall, the declaration leaves less room for loop holes and is much more concise then something like Mosaic's Code.