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The Historical Status of the Bill of Rights
The Bill of Rights is a landmark legal document in the history of world constitution. It is not only a milestone of British constitutionalism, but also affects the constitutionalism of other countries, and has evolved into a right clause in the constitutions of various countries. It is "the programmatic document, theory and banner of the bourgeois anti-feudal revolution, and it is the basic concept and structure of the new country in the future" (the interpretation of the history curriculum standard by the Department of Basic Education of the Ministry of Education). It is the goal of the British bourgeois revolution, and it guarantees the revolutionary achievements in the form of law. The Bill of Rights is a bill to further protect people's rights. The British bourgeois revolution fought for not only the protection of property rights in a narrow sense, but also the freedom necessary to establish human dignity and moral realm. The "human rights" listed in the British Bill of Rights gradually spread outside Britain, especially in the American Declaration of Independence in 1776 and the French Declaration of Human Rights in 1789.