The
concept of human rights has existed under several names in European
thought for many centuries at least since the time of king john of
England.
The political and religious tradition in order parts of
the word also proclaimed what have come to be called human rights
calling on rules to rule justly and compassionately and delineating
limits on their citizens.
In the eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries in Europe several philosophers proposed the concept of rights
belonging to person by natural and because ha was a human being not by
virtue of his citizenship in a particular religion or race or ethnic
group.
In the late 1700, two revolutions occurred which drew
heavily on this concept in 1776, most of the British colonies in North
America proclaimed their independence from the British Empire in
document, which still stirs feeling and debate.
