Beauchamp and Childress's selection of which historical practices constitute 'common morality' reflects prior normative commitments, making universality an assumption rather than a finding.

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An assumption rather than a finding(as criticism that the theory assumes what it claims to discover): Something taken for granted at the start (assumption) rather than something discovered through investigation (finding)—suggesting the conclusion was built in from the beginning.
Beauchamp and Childress(as cited authorities on medical ethics and public health ethics): Two bioethicists (Tom Beauchamp and James Childress) who wrote an influential textbook on medical ethics that established four core principles for making ethical decisions in healthcare: respect for people's choices, doing good, avoiding harm, and treating people fairly.
common morality(Beauchamp and Childress's bioethical framework): A set of moral norms whose authority is established historically through their success in advancing human flourishing across time and place, applied universally rather than relatively
normative(in ethics and philosophy)

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