AH challenge: Proto-UDHR in 1848/49 ?

OK, given that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights came into existence in 1948 in the aftermath of WWII, could there have been a similar declaratory document for the rights of ppl's was generated in 1848/49 in the aftermath of the Nationalist Revolutions in Europe ? What effects would such a proto-UDHR have had in the 19th C & beyond ?
 
If those Nationalist revolutions quickly turn into Communist Revolutions like Marx wanted then yes a document could be drawn up. The International would like be the UN to create such a document, too.

No one besides communists were interested in Human rights back then.
 
If those Nationalist revolutions quickly turn into Communist Revolutions like Marx wanted then yes a document could be drawn up. The International would like be the UN to create such a document, too.

No one besides communists were interested in Human rights back then.
??? What Communists? 1848 was the year Marx published the Communist Manifesto, which hardly leaves room for the ideas to spread in one year.
 
??? What Communists? 1848 was the year Marx published the Communist Manifesto, which hardly leaves room for the ideas to spread in one year.

Well hey, the whole idea of a international declaration of human rights in 1848 seems pretty difficult. So I kind of suppose that a spread similar to early christianity would occur.

In OTL there were few communists. But I think that for any sort of declaration of human rights, the various internationalist leftest groups would be the only ones to create such a declaration.

Hypothetically that would likely mean a spontaneous revolution all across europe.
 
If it were, this proto-Declaration would be considerably harsher than the RL 1948 version, and if this Declaration were then (even slowly) to gain acceptance as presumably you are hoping to see, then it's not going to deviate much as there will be a trend to view it as the epitomy of rights - it will probably go some way to dissuading people on becoming even softer. For instance, this Declaration would probably do things such as codifying men as superior to women (if not to the extent of controlling them), enshrining the death penalty as acceptable for crimes such as stealing, will probably bring about an attitude that the workhouse poor deserve the situation they are in, and should be pitied but shouldn't be artificially given money to help them out of their situation, etc. It would be interesting, but it might well go some way to preserving Victorian-era values where otherwise they would have continued to become more liberal.

Just my take on the matter, of course.
 
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