Jeff Jacoby, a columnist with the Boston Globe, describes the signers of the Leipzig Declaration as " climate scientists " that " include prominent scholars.

" In addition to affirming the inherent nature of rights to life, liberty, property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety, the Declaration both describes a view of Government as the servant of the people, and enumerates its separation of powers into the administration, legislature, and judiciary.

On November 26, 1984, the institute released a " Declaration of the Inalienable Rights of Man ," which it describes as " the basis of the Institute's work and efforts worldwide.

The Calgary Declaration of 1997, for example, describes Quebec as " unique ".

The Declaration describes what colonists viewed as the unconstitutional effort of the British Parliament to extend its jurisdiction into the colonies following the Seven Years ' War.

That first synod made the Solemn Declaration 1893, which describes how the Church of England in Canada is related to " the Church of England throughout the world " and " the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church ".

Jaffa describes human equality as America's " ancient faith " and contends that the Declaration of Independence reflects the principles of natural law.

" The ' most comprehensive explanation ' of the origin of the Balfour Declaration the Foreign Office was able to provide was contained in a small ' unofficial ' note of Jan 1923 affirming that: little is known of how the policy represented by the Declaration was first given form.

With his help, French former minister and Resistance fighter Pierre-Henri Teitgen submitted a report to the Assembly proposing a list of rights to be protected, selecting a number from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights just agreed to in New York, and defining how the enforcing judicial mechanism might operate.

While the French settlers debated how new revolutionary laws would apply to Saint-Domingue, outright civil war broke out in 1790 when the free men of color claimed they too were French citizens under the terms of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.

Some have protested that such rules violate the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the " freedom of thought, belief and conscience " clause in the Constitution of Japan, but the Board has argued that since schools are government agencies, their employees have an obligation to teach their students how to be good Japanese citizens.

The Churchill White Paper ( also known as The British White Paper of 1922 ) of 3 June 1922 clarified how Britain viewed the Balfour Declaration, 1917.

Her declaration bears the same outline and context as the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, but Gouges either changes the word “ man ” to “ woman ” or adds “ for both women and men .” In article II, the resemblance is exact to the previous declaration except that she adds “ especially ” before “ the right to the resistance of oppression ”, emphasizing again how important it is to her to end the oppression of women, and that the government should recognize this and take action.

* A Treatise Tending Vnto a Declaration Whether a Man be in the Estate of Damnation or in the Estate of Grace: And If he be in the First, How he may in Time Come out of it: if in the second, how he maie discerne it, and perseuere in the same to the end.

Although the Declaration was a statement of principles, it did not create a government or even a framework for how politics would be carried out.

* The Next Step: The adoption of The Plan of Action to specify how the World Declaration on the Survival, Protection, and Development of Children will be realized.

The " Kuujjuaq Declaration " addressed perceived attacks on their autonomy and rights, and recommended that the Inuit Circumpolar Council " undertake a comprehensive study on how best to address global forces, such as the ' animal rights ' and other destructive movements that aim to destroy Inuit sustainable use of living resources, and to report back to the next General Assembly on its findings.

to the Most Illustrious Princess, The Dutchess of Mazarine ... how infinitely one of Your own Sex ador'd You, and that, among all the numerous Conquest, Your Grace has made over the Hearts of Men, Your Grace had not subdu'd a more intire Slave ; I assure you, Madam, there is neither Compliment, nor Poetry, in this humble Declaration, but a Truth, which has cst me a great deal of Inquietude, for that Fortune has not set me in such a Station, as might justifie my Pretence to the honour and satisfaction of being ever near Your Grace, to view eternally that lovely Person, and here that surprising Wit ; what can be more grateful to a Heart, than so great, and so agreeable, an Entertainment?

The Paris Declaration went much further than previous agreements ; it represented a broader consensus among the international community about how to make aid more effective.

It is currently focusing on the implementation of the Paris Declaration, designing a set of guiding principles to show how women ’ s empowerment can be clearly integrated into aid effectiveness efforts to increase their impact.

The Calgary Declaration, also known as the Calgary Accord, was an agreement made between most premiers of the provinces and territories of Canada regarding how to approach future amendments to the Constitution.

He also outlines " new problems " that should foster debate in the years to come on questions such as a project for a Declaration of Interdependence, how to re-equilibrate world trade and WTO activities, and how to create world regulations for managing collective goods ( air, drinking water, oil, etc.

Its origins date back to June 2003, when foreign ministers from Brazil, India and South Africa signed a declaration known as the Brasilia Declaration, in which they stated that “ major trading partners are still moved by protectionist concerns in their countries ’ less competitive sectors [...] and emphasized how important it is that the results of the current round of trade negotiations provide especially for the reversal of protectionist policies and trade-distorting practices [...] Furthermore, Brazil, India and South Africa decided to articulate their initiatives of trade liberalization ”.

* In 1809, Campbell published The Declaration and Address of the Christian Association of Washington, a document stating his ideas about how the Christian faith should be practiced.

Furthermore he relates the current situation of the convention to that of the 1774 congress that drafted the Declaration of Independence, and how it too was attacked wrongfully by opponents who seek to aggrandize themselves at the expense of the public good.

Earlier, there was a strong romantic nationalist element mixed with Enlightenment rationalism in the rhetoric used in British North America, in the colonists ' Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution of 1787, as well as the rhetoric in the wave of revolts, inspired by new senses of localized identities, which swept the American colonies of Spain, one after the other, from 1811.

British and Loyalist efforts to disarm the colonial Patriot militia armories in the early phases of the American Revolution resulted in the Patriot colonists protesting by citing the Declaration of Rights, Blackstone's summary of the Declaration of Rights, their own militia laws and common law rights to self-defense.

Those who are able to read the history in the light of what occurred later may perhaps be convinced that no policy whatever initiated, after 1766 could have prevented or even materially delayed the United States Declaration of Independence ; but to the politicians of that time the coming event had not yet cast so dark a shadow before as to paralyse all action, and if any man could have allayed the growing discontent of the colonists and prevented the ultimate dismemberment of the empire, it would have been Lord Chatham.

Originally settled by colonists at what had become the juncture of several plantation farms the name for the town itself comes from a land patent and resurvey granted by patent from the Lord proprietor's land office to James Sulivane in May 1776 just prior to the issuance of the American Declaration of Independence as " New Market.

Wheeler quotes Horace Greeley, " If the Declaration of Independence justifies the secession from the British Empire of three million colonists in 1776, we do not see why it would not justify the secession of five millions of southerns from the Federal Union in 1861.

In the United States Declaration of Independence, colonists complained that George III " has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained ; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

In 1774 the First Continental Congress passed their Declaration and Resolves, which inter alia claimed that American colonists were equal to all other British citizens, protested taxation without representation, and stated that, without colonial representation in Parliament, Parliament could not tax colonists.

* 1774 A Declaration of the People's Natural Right to a Share in the Legislature, in support of the American colonists

The United States Declaration of Independence is mainly an enumeration of the colonists ' grievances against King George III.

Even though British troops have been sent to enforce these unconstitutional acts, the Declaration insists that the colonists do not yet seek independence from the mother country.

The Declaration of Rights and Grievances was a document created and passed October 19, 1765 by the Stamp Act Congress, declaring that taxes imposed on British colonists without their formal consent were unconstitutional.

The Declaration of the People of Virginia ( or simply Declaration of the People ) was a list of complaints issued by Nathaniel Bacon on July 30, 1676, in which he proclaims Virginia's colonial governor, William Berkeley, corrupt and expresses his displeasure at what his followers regarded as unjust taxation and the government's failure to provide colonists protection from some tribes of Native Americans — the presumed grievances which brought about the uprising known as Bacon's rebellion.

They recognized that slavery was a moral issue and not merely an economic interest, and that to recognize it explicitly in their Constitution would be in explosive contradiction to the concept of sovereignty they had set forth in the Declaration of 1776 that `` all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among them are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Following the publication of the Declaration the British had dispatched Commander David George Hogarth to see Hussein in January 1918 bearing the message that the " political and economic freedom " of the Palestinian population was not in question.

By 1975 signatories to the 1974 Declaration of Ayacucho, of which Colombia was one, had decided on limitations to nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons.

The Declaration made a number of much-debated rhetorical points: that Scotland had always been independent, indeed for longer than England ; that Edward I of England had unjustly attacked Scotland and perpetrated atrocities ; that Robert the Bruce had delivered the Scottish nation from this peril ; and, most controversially, that the independence of Scotland was the prerogative of the Scottish people, rather than the King of Scots.

It has also been argued that the Declaration was not a statement of popular sovereignty ( and that its signatories would have had no such concept )

The Pope heeded the arguments contained in the Declaration, influenced by the offer of support from the Scots for his long-desired crusade if they no longer had to fear English invasion.

In 1999, the university had signed the Talloires Declaration, which committed Dalhousie, and other higher education institutions towards developing, creating, supporting and maintaining sustainability.

First, in the aftermath of the Second World War, the convention, drawing on the inspiration of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights can be seen as part of a wider response of the Allied Powers in delivering a human rights agenda through which it was believed that the most serious human rights violations which had occurred during the Second World War ( most notably, the Holocaust ) could be avoided in the future.

The White Paper of 1939, stated that with over 450, 000 Jews having now arrived in Palestine, the Balfour Declaration aim of " a national home for the Jewish people " had been achieved.

The Declaration of Rhense issued in 1338 had the effect that election by the majority of the electors automatically conferred the royal title and rule over the empire, without papal confirmation.

The new states had to acknowledge the stipulated rights in a Declaration, which according to precedent was tantamount to a treaty.

In the hearings before the Ad Hoc Political Committee that considered Israel's application for membership in the United Nations, Abba Eban said that the rights stipulated in section C. Declaration, chapters 1 and 2 of UN resolution 181 ( II ) had been alluded to in the fundamental law of the state of Israel as proposed by the resolution.

The debate over wording did not end completely even after the Declaration had been made.

* 1994 – Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration, which formally ends the state of war that had existed between the nations since 1948.

The Downing Street Declaration was issued on 15 December 1993 by Major and Albert Reynolds, the Irish Taoiseach, with whom he had a friendly relationship: an IRA ceasefire followed in 1994.

El Salvador joined the U. S. in their Declaration of Intervention which it submitted on 15 August 1984, where it alleged itself the victim of an armed attack by Nicaragua, and that it had asked the United States to exercise for its benefit the right of collective self-defence.

* 1956 – The Soviet Union and Japan sign a Joint Declaration, officially ending the state of war between the two countries that had existed since August 1945.

By the 26 July, the Potsdam Declaration had been broadcast to Japan, threatening total destruction unless the Imperial Japanese government submitted to unconditional surrender.

After the Second World War ( 1939 – 45 ), and the Tehran, Casablanca and Yalta Conferences, the Allies by the Berlin Declaration of June 5th, 1945 had assumed supreme authority over Germany.

Lee had returned to Virginia by the time Congress voted on and adopted the Declaration of Independence, but he signed the document when he returned to Congress

John Trumbull ’ s Declaration of Independence had won popular acclaim in 1820.

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.