“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal ..."

- The Declaration of Independence (1776)
"No State shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."

- Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, Section 1
"All (people) are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to the
equal protection of the law."

- Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 7, (1948)

8. Which of the following exercised the most influence on the central idea of the se
documents?

A. the Judeo-Christian legal tradition

B. the sayings of Mohammed in the Quran

C. the absolutist doctrine of the divine right of kings"

D. the communist theory of class struggle