Human rights declarations are born from war and project warfare metaphors into reform

Evidence

These bills and declarations not only came out of war, they carried the metaphor of warfare into the domain of social reform. And they sought to extend a specific legal culture beyond its original Euro-American location with the aim of emancipating the human individual throughout the world. — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 694

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘legal culture extending beyond Euro-American location’ parallels the law-merchant reading and trust-through-institutions sources on how specific legal cultures travel and universalize.