French Catholicism, the Family, and the Origins of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
摘要
This chapter investigates the family as a subject and object of international human rights norms through the prism of European Catholic thought and politics. The central theme is the extent to which family rights were compatible with majority rule democracy and popular sovereignty, as well as the relationship between Catholic natural law and republican rights of man. It investigates how and why the family was included in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as well as the mobilization of the family rights provisions of the Universal Declaration on the domestic political scene, above all with regards to France.