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no bull and the aftermath.

The Declaration of Independence and the speaks of the laws of nature is harkening back to

a tradition of natural rights, which holds that there are certain rights that are pre-political

and that we enter into government for the protection of those rights.

Now there's another tradition of natural law that sees rights as grounded in reason.

Personally, those terms, well they mean much to people who ascribe to them, they are not

shared by everybody.

That is why the Draftors of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights prefer to speak of rights that

are deeply grounded in the world's major philosophical and religious traditions.

I'm Benjamin Wittes and this is the LawFair podcast August 3rd, 2019.

Marianne Glendon is the chair of the Commission on Unalienable Rights, announced by Secretary

Pompeo on July 8th to great controversy.

The Commission was charged with examining the basis of human rights claims and the extent

to which they are or are not rooted in the American rights tradition.

The response of the human rights community was swift and fierce, a lot of skepticism,

a lot of anger, a lot of criticism.

Marianne Glendon, the chair of the Commission and the learned hand professor of law at the

Harvard Law School, sat down with Jack Goldsmith to discuss the Commission, what it is and isn't

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