Politics are a driving force of human nature that dictate the destiny of a nation and potentially control every person that inhabits a region. The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment evolved the world-view of politics, as it became an aspect of life that everyone desired to take part in. ... Society's general view of government provoked the unstoppable flow of revolutionary political concepts that were implemented throughout the Enlightenment. ... Beneath the genius innovations that encircled society laid the unmatched philosophy produced from the glorious mind of John Locke. ......

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Egon Schwelb (1946) argued that the basis for the UDHR is in the legal and political thinking between the seventeenth and twentieth century, from France, England and the United States. ... Ignatieff (2001) argues that the UDHR drafting committee saw their role as needing to determine the boundaries of universal morals in the context of varied religious, political, ethnic and philosophical backdrops. ... 'Western' ideas of rights place most importance on the individual, with the promotion and protection of civil and political rights emphasised. ... Robertson and Merrils (1996) write ...

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