The preamble from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is
considered a seminal document because it is both the introduction to the
Declaration of Human Rights and it sets out the ideas and values for
the rest of the document.
Before we continue, we need to make
sure we understand the meaning of a preamble and a seminal document. A
preamble is a preliminary or introductory statement, and a seminal
document is a document that has strong ideas and is influential on the
latter part of the document.
