Universal Dec. of Human Rts.
Regents Practice
Jan. 2002
Base your answer to question 50 on the document below and on your knowledge of social studies.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Article 2: Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as . . . colour, sex, language, . . . national or social origin, property, birth or other status.
Article 5: No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
or punishment.
Article 9: No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.
Article 13: Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.
Article 18: Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion. . . .
Article 20: Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.
Article 21: Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives.
—United Nations, December 10, 1948
50 The ideas expressed in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights
most closely reflect the political philosophy of the
(1) Scientific Revolution (3) Commercial Revolution
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