<P> Other well - known members of the drafting committee included René Cassin of France, Charles Malik of Lebanon, P.C. Chang of the Republic of China (Taiwan). Humphrey provided the initial draft which became the working text of the Commission . </P> <P> According to Allan Carlson, the Declaration's pro-family phrases were the result of the Christian Democratic movement's influence on Cassin and Malik . </P> <P> Once the Committee finished its work in May 1948, the draft was further discussed by the Commission on Human Rights, the Economic and Social Council, the Third Committee of the General Assembly before being put to vote in December 1948 . During these discussions many amendments and propositions were made by UN Member States . </P> <P> British representatives were extremely frustrated that the proposal had moral but no legal obligation . (It was not until 1976 that the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights came into force, giving a legal status to most of the Declaration .) </P>

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