Highlighting Ideas of Human Rights: A Review of American Intellectuals’ Classic Writings

This article intends to review the ideas of human rights appearing in several American intellectuals’ classic writings from Puritan era up modern era. It is a descriptive qualitative writing whose focus on literature review. In so doing, close reading applied as method and interdisciplinary perspective its framework found that have spread public issue until when proposed by many intellectuals, i.e., Anne Hutchinson, Roger Williams, Thomas Jefferson, Paine, John Adams, James Madison, Frederick Douglass, Martin Delany, George Fitzhugh, Abraham Lincoln, Sarah Grimke, Louisa McCord, Margaret Fuller, Betty Friedan, William Lloyd Garrison, forth. response inhumane social conditions United States, arose.The certainly support establishment States country. Consequently, this fact indicates persisted veins nation over time, preserving it most plural multicultural one which all entities are welcome acknowledged.