John Adams dismissed John Dickinson, who voted against the Declaration of Independence, as `` a certain great fortune and piddling genius ''.

The move is in retaliation for the Declaration of Tripoli against Egypt.

Probably the two most famous declarations of a right to revolution against tyranny in the English language are John Locke's Essay concerning The True Original, Extent, and End of Civil-Government and Thomas Jefferson's formulation in the United States Declaration of Independence that " all men are created equal ".

* 1955 – Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others.

* 1846 – President James K. Polk asked for and received a Declaration of War against Mexico, starting the Mexican-American War

The latter scholars cite examples, such as the Declaration of Independence ( describing in 1776 " the Right of the People to ... institute new Government ") and the New Hampshire Constitution ( stating in 1784 that " nonresistance against arbitrary power, and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind ").

Members of Parliament then explained in August 1689 that “ the Commons had a particular regard … when that Declaration was first made ” to punishments like the one that had been inflicted by the King's Bench against Titus Oates.

The Declaration justified the independence of the United States by listing colonial grievances against King George III, and by asserting certain natural and legal rights, including a right of revolution.

The Universal Declaration was adopted by the General Assembly on 10 December 1948 by a vote of 48 in favour, 0 against, with eight abstentions: the USSR, Ukrainian SSR, Byelorussian SSR, Yugoslavia, Poland, South Africa, Czechoslovakia and Saudi Arabia.

* Spring – James VII and II orders his Declaration of Indulgence, suspending penal laws against Catholics, to be read from every Anglican pulpit in England.

* April 4 – King James II of England issues the Declaration of Indulgence, aka the Declaration of Liberty of Conscience, suspending laws against Catholics and non-conformists.

Powell had voted against the Schuman Declaration in 1950 and had supported entry only because he believed that the Common Market was simply a means to secure free trade.

Having failed, he issues a Declaration of Indulgence, which suspends penal laws against both Catholics and Protestant dissenters.

* March 15 – Charles II of England issues the Royal Declaration of Indulgence, suspending execution of penal laws against Protestant nonconformists.

A de facto state of war is a situation where two nations are actively engaging, or are engaged, in aggressive military actions against the other without a formal Declaration of war.

* Declaration of war, a formal act by which one nation goes to war against another

The Declaration of Pillnitz warned of the possibility of military action against the French revolutionary government, a provocation that provided it with grounds to declare war on Austria in April 1792.

Province of Georgia was one of the Thirteen Colonies that revolted against British rule in the American Revolution by signing the 1776 Declaration of Independence.

The Declaration is not legally binding, however the United States chose in 1998 to pass the International Religious Freedom Act, creating the Commission on International Religious Freedom, and mandating that the United States government take action against any country found to violate the religious freedoms outlined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Paul Revere was descended from Huguenot refugees, as was Henry Laurens, who signed the Declaration of Independence for South Carolina ; Jack Jouett, who made the ride from Cuckoo Tavern to warn Thomas Jefferson and others that Tarleton and his men were on their way to arrest him for crimes against the king ; Francis Marion, and a number of other leaders of the American Revolution and later statesmen.

The Sheffield Resolves, or Sheffield Declaration, was an early Colonial American petition against British rule and manifesto for individual rights, drawn up as a series of resolves approved by the Town of Sheffield on January 12, 1773 and printed in The Massachusetts Spy, Or, Thomas ’ s Boston Journal on February 18, 1773.

Vatican Declaration on Opus Dei.

Apostolic Constitution Ut Sit Establishing the Personal Prelature of Opus Dei and the Vatican Declaration on Opus Dei

To reiterate this point 19 African countries signed the " Accra Declaration " in 2006 calling for a total ivory trade ban and 20 range states attended a meeting in Kenya calling for a 20 year moratorium in 2007.

The right to join a trade union is mentioned in article 23, subsection 4 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ( UDHR ), which also states in article 20, subsection 2 that " No one may be compelled to belong to an association ".

The mandate of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights derives from Articles 1, 13 and 55 of the Charter of the United Nations, the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action and General Assembly resolution 48 / 141 of 20 December 1993, by which the Assembly established the post of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.

For instance, the Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on November 20, 1963, address racial prejudice explicitly next to discrimination for reasons of race, colour or ethnic origin ( Article I ).

* Animated presentation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by Amnesty International, from Youtube ( English, 20 minutes and 23 seconds )

* November 20 – The Declaration of the Rights of the Child is adopted by the United Nations.

* December 20 – The Texas Declaration of Independence is first signed at Goliad, Texas.

Consciously modeled after the Declaration of Independence, the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments became the founding document of the American women's movement, and it was adopted at the Seneca Falls Convention, July 19 and 20, 1848

The UN General Assembly adopted the Convention and opened it for signature on 20 November 1989 ( the 30th anniversary of its Declaration of the Rights of the Child ).

The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence was allegedly signed on May 20, 1775 ; if the document is indeed genuine, Mecklenburg County was the first part of the Thirteen Colonies to declare independence from Great Britain.

Independence County is Arkansas's ninth county, formed on October 20, 1820, from a portion of Lawrence County and named to honor the Declaration of Independence.

Beyond the Declaration of Principles adopted in 2003 at the Geneva Phase of the World Summit on the information Society ( WSIS ), the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions was adopted in 20 October 2005, but neither ratified neither by the US, Australia nor by Israel.

The Declaration of the Strike Committee, dated July 20, 1892 reads in part,

Oliver Wolcott ( November 20, 1726December 1, 1797 ) was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence and also the Articles of Confederation as a representative of Connecticut.

The 20, 000 members in attendance promulgated The Declaration of Rights of the Negro Peoples of the World on August 13, 1920, and elected the leaders of the UNIA as " leaders for the Negro people of the world ".

It bears the dates of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence ( May 20, 1775 ) and of the Halifax Resolves ( April 12, 1776 ), documents that place North Carolina at the forefront of the American independence movement.

The flag of North Carolina bears the date of the Mecklenburg Declaration: May 20, 1775.

A holiday commemorating the Mecklenburg Declaration, " Meck Dec Day ", is celebrated on May 20 in North Carolina, although it is no longer an official holiday and does not attract the attention that it once did.

The first celebration of the anniversary of the supposed adoption of the Mecklenburg Declaration took place in Charlotte on May 20, 1825.

On May 20, 1835, more than five thousand people gathered in Charlotte to celebrate the Mecklenburg Declaration.

That year, while examining newspapers published in 1775, archivist Peter Force discovered an abbreviated list of resolutions adopted in Mecklenburg County on May 31, 1775, that were different from the Mecklenburg Declaration of May 20.

At one time the State of North Carolina made it compulsory for the public schools to teach that Mecklenburg County had adopted a Declaration of Independence on May 20, 1775 — to teach what had been clearly demonstrated an untruth.