Virginia's Declaration of Rights was the example used to draft the United States first Bill of Rights. George Mason drafted this early Virginia document.
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The Virginia declaration of rights written mainly by george mason in 1776, as well as the English Bill of Rights from 1689 and the Scottish Claim of Right Act also from 1689.
Many political scientists and historians claim that the US Constitution has served as a model for many new governments that were established from the early part of the twentieth century onwards. This does not infer that all new governments are republics like the United States. What has happened is that the rights of citizens guaranteed in the US Constitution, such as freedom of speech, became part of the government structures that were parliamentary in structure, as well as those governments that are republics.
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Certainly not. 200 years after it's creation it is still a model document.
The United States' Federal government is constructed upon the document called the US Constitution. This document displays how the central government works and what the freedoms US citizens enjoy. The government is built to serve its people, not to "rule" them in a manner of speaking. The Constitution has been a model of a good number of other governments throughout the last few hundred years.
The Declaration of Sentiments was written in 1848 after Lucretia Mott was banned from speaking at an anti-slavery convention. This model was based on the Declaration of Independence because the idea behind it was similar to the idea behind declaring independence.