This file is being posted on the Rethinking Schools Web site (www.rethinkingschools.org) to accompany “A New U.S. Bill of Rights,” by Larry Miller, which appears on p. 70 of Rethinking Our Classrooms, Volume 2.
Articles (Right to):
- Equality
- Freedom from Discrimination
- Life, Liberty, Personal Security
- Freedom from Slavery
- Freedom from Torture and Degradation
- Recognition as a Person before the Law
- Equality before the Law
- Fair Pre-Trial Hearing
- Freedom form Arbitrary Arrest and Exile
- Fair Trial
- Considered Innocent Until Proven Guilty
- Freedom From Interference with Privacy, Family, Home and Correspondence
- To Free Movement in and out of the Country
- To Asylum in other Countries form Persecution
- To a Nationality and the Freedom to Change it
- To Marriage and Family
- To Own Property
- Freedom of Belief and Religion
- Freedom of Opinion and Information
- Peaceful Assembly and Association
- To Participate in Government and in Free Elections
- To Social Security
- To Desirable Work and to Join Trade Unions
- To rest and Leisure
- To Adequate Living Standard
- To education
- To participate in the Cultural Life of Community
- To a Social Order that Articulates this Document
- Community Duties Essential to Free and Full Development
- Freedom from State and Personal Interference in the above Rights