So Who Was The Very First To Conceive Of Social And Economic Rights?

Discussion in 'Politics' started by Jimbee68, Feb 26, 2026.

  1. Jimbee68

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    Some people are skeptical of things like the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights because it has more than just political and democratic rights. It protects "social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom" too. Like an 8 hour work day and pensions for widows and people who are disabled. Things that weren't mentioned in the first bills or charter of rights like the Magna Carta and the English and US bill of rights.

    But a while back I discovered actually that's not true. For example the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen of 1793 included social welfare, the rights to an education and to public assistance, in addition to the liberty, property, resistance to oppression and equality of the 1789 one. But the 1793 was never passed. So who was the first? And to get another debate going I might as well ask, are those fundamental rights too? I think they are.
     
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