Speech #910019372

I would like to quote a few representative statements from the letter for the information of Senators: We have always unreservedly and with pride identified ourselves with the Bill of Rights of our American Constitution. The Bill of Rights. now just. a few years from its 200th anniversary. served as a legal model and moral inspiration for the Universal Declaration of Human Rightswhich in turn led to twenty major human rights conventions adopted by the United Nations over the past twenty years. Yet. throughout these two decades. we have. but two exceptions (the Conventions dealing with slavery and refugees) not moved to guarantee the noble goals of the United Nations Universal Declaration. reflecting the very rights which our thirteen colonies fought for two centuries ago. In establishing this country and its revolutionary freedoms. Chief Justice Earl Warren said recently "We have failed ourselves.