RC Question 4 Explanation
DISCUSSION: There’s not much you can do to prepare for this type of question. Except, you should first make sure you know where the UDHR is discussed. It’s mentioned on lines 27-56.
Personally, I skimmed those lines before starting. This took maybe 10 seconds, and left me familiar with the UDHR. This made me faster at eliminating answers, and I knew where to look back when I had any doubts.
Of course, by answer E I realized that the UDHR was also mentioned on lines 1-4, so I reread those lines to eliminate the answer. Despite the fact that I was wrong about where the UDHR was mentioned, skimming lines 27-56 still made me faster.
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- The right to leisure is mentioned on line 44.
- Line 7 says the charter was drafted in 1945. Line 29 says the drafting of the UDHR only started in 1945.
- See lines 27-30. They say the UN commission on human rights drafted the UDHR.
- CORRECT. This answer contradicts the passage (making it correct). Lines 50-53 say that the UDHR led to other legally binding human rights conventions.
- Lines 1-4 say that the UDHR was the first treaty to expressly affirm respect for human rights.
I think I’m mistaken, but doesn’t the passage say that the Declaration carries with it no legally binding “status” (last paragraph). I took that as it carries no legal obligation/consequence to punish people for going against the Declaration. That’s why I thought D couldn’t be the answer.
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D says “It has no practical consequence”. Put simply that means “Passing the UDHR didn’t cause anything else to happen”. Consequence is a very broad word, it can simply mean “result of effect” and it certainly doesn’t need to refer to punishment.
Eg you are taking the lsat. As a consequence, once you have a score you are eligible to apply to law school
The passage says passing the UDHR led to other binding treaties. Those treaties are therefore a consequence of the UDHR: they happened as a result of it