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holds it to be a source of binding international obligations for the OAS's member states. While largely superseded in the current practice of the inter-American human rights system by the more elaborate provisions of the
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All men are born free and equal, in dignity and in rights, and, being endowed by nature with reason and conscience, they should conduct themselves as brothers one to another.
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due to them. As a corollary, its second chapter contains a list of corresponding duties. As explained in the preamble:
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to be enjoyed by the citizens of the signatory nations, together with additional
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Text of the American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man
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Preamble, American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man
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Chapter One of the Declaration sets forth a catalogue of
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