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Inventing Human Rights.(Brief article)(Book review)
In 1748, Montesquieu, in an attack on the then common use of torture, wrote, "I was going to say that it might be suitable for despotic government…but I hear the voice of nature crying out against me." His wavering, Hunt writes, illustrates the revolutionary quality of the years leading to the Declarations of Independence and of the Rights of Man, when something inconceivable--an innate set of social and political ...
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