Explanation for Question 38 From the Reading Section on the 2019 May Sat
Question 38 asks passage to most strongly suggests that a significant flaw of the 2 universal declaration of human rights is that it is what, 3 so let's look back into passage two and see if we can find somewhere 4 where they discuss the weaknesses and looky. 5 There you can. So that last paragraph starts off literally with the weaknesses. 6 So we can look through this paragraph and try to understand it and then 7 identify which answer most corresponds with that. So it says the weaknesses that would 8 go on to undermine human rights law were there from the start. 9 So that first sentence, not really anything specific, 10 it says the universal declaration was not a treaty in a formal sense. 11 No one at the time believed that it created legally binding obligations. 12 So that might be a good thing, 13 right? No one thought it was legally blind binding. 14 So that's one. 15 It did not create legally binding obligations. 16 Keep reading. The next sentence says it was not ratified by nations, 17 but approved by the general assembly. And the UN charter did not give the 18 general assembly the power to make international law. 19 So that part also seems kind of problematic, 20 right? You have people that are like saying things about international law that might 21 not have that power, but again, 22 they say this isn't legally binding. So there might be a little bit of 23 misunderstanding here. Let's look at that last sentence. 24 So it says more over the rights were described in vag...