The Conservative Human Rights Revolution

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This book reconsiders the origins of the European human rights system, arguing that its conservative inventors, foremost among them Winston Churchill, conceived of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) as a means of realizing a controversial political agenda and advancing a Christian vision of European identity.

subjects: Human rights, europe,  Civil rights, europe,  Courts, europe,  History,  Human rights,  Civil rights,  European Court of Human Rights