Bill of rights

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789 is a fundamental document of the French Revolution and in the history of human rights.
Draft of the United States Bill of Rights, also from 1789

A bill of rights, sometimes called a declaration of rights or a charter of rights, is a list of the most important rights to the citizens of a country. The purpose is to protect those rights against infringement from public officials and private citizens.[1]

Bills of rights may be entrenched or unentrenched. An entrenched bill of rights cannot be amended or repealed by a country's legislature through regular procedure, instead requiring a supermajority or referendum; often it is part of a country's constitution, and therefore subject to special procedures applicable to constitutional amendments.

  1. ^ Sellers, Mortimer N. S. (2013). "Universal Human Rights Law in the United States". In Haeck, Yves; Brems, Eva (eds.). Human Rights and Civil Liberties in the 21st Century. Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice. Vol. 30. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands. pp. 15–35. doi:10.1007/978-94-007-7599-2_2. ISBN 978-94-007-7598-5.

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