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“A tour de force.... No one has ever written a book on the Declaration quite like this one.” —Gordon Wood, New York Review of Books Winner of the Zócalo

A noted legal scholar examines the source of human rights, arguing that rights are the result of particular experiences with injustice and looking at the implic