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. <span>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. </span>
