Additionally, legal experts at the State Department and Justice Department concluded that a declaration of war could be avoided so long as another legal justification, based on the Rio Treaty for defense of the Western Hemisphere, was obtained via a resolution by a two-thirds vote from the members or the Organization of American States ( OAS ).

After telling the audience " I shall now read to you the scroll of the Establishment of the State, which has passed its first reading by the National Council ", Ben-Gurion proceeded to read out the declaration, taking 16 minutes, ending with the words " Let us accept the Foundation Scroll of the Jewish State by rising " and calling on Rabbi Fishman to recite the Shehecheyanu blessing.

Following the declaration, Moetzet HaAm became the Provisional State Council, which acted as the legislative body for the new state until the first elections in January 1949.

Eleven minutes after the declaration went into force, the United States de facto recognised the State of Israel, followed by Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's Iran ( which had voted against the UN partition plan ), Guatemala, Iceland, Nicaragua, Romania, and Uruguay.

The declaration stated that the State of Israel would ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex, and guaranteed freedom of religion, conscience, language, education and culture.

In 1994 the Knesset amended two basic laws, Human Dignity and Liberty and Freedom of Occupation, introducing ( among other changes ) a statement saying " the fundamental human rights in Israel will be honored (...) in the spirit of the principles included in the declaration of the establishment of the State of Israel.

* 1940 – The United States ' Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles issues a declaration on the U. S. non-recognition policy of the Soviet annexation and incorporation of three Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

" Madison explained that when the Virginia Legislature passed the Virginia Resolution, the " interposition " it contemplated was " a concurring and cooperating interposition of the States, not that of a single State .… he Legislature expressly disclaimed the idea that a declaration of a State, that a law of the U. S. was unconstitutional, had the effect of annulling the law.

In 1970 a series of marches and strikes led to the declaration of a State of Emergency and the arrest of 15 Black Power leaders.

In the aftermath, Turkish Cypriots declared a separate political entity in the form of the Turkish Federative State of Cyprus in 1975 and by 1983 made a unilateral declaration of independence as the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, which was recognised only by Turkey.

However, the US did not make an effort to implement this proposal, which became moot with the declaration of the State of Israel.

Simon M. Kapwepwe and Harry Mwaanga Nkumbula who before the declaration of a One Party State had been leaders of the UPP and ANC political parties respectively, had joined UNIP with the intention of challenging for the Presidency.

" Some of the high honors ZZ Top have achieved include induction into Hollywood's RockWalk in 1994, the Texas House of Representatives naming them " Official Heroes for the State of Texas ", a declaration of " ZZ Top Day " in Texas by then-governor Ann Richards on May 4, 1991, and induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004.

The doctrine was also invoked by U. S. Under-Secretary of State Sumner Welles in a declaration of July 23, 1940, that announced non-recognition of the Soviet annexation and incorporation of the three Baltic states — Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania — and remained the official U. S. position until the Baltic states gained formal international recognition as independent states in 1991.

French foreign minister and former UN Kosovo chief, Bernard Kouchner, warned that a unilateral declaration would split the European Union over recognition of the independence, whilst US State Department spokesman Sean McCormack commented that, ' There is nothing to be gained by short-circuiting the diplomatic process that is under way.

The declaration invoked the Treaty of Lausanne ( 1923 ) and UN General Assembly Resolution 181 in support of its claim to a " State of Palestine on our Palestinian territory with its capital Jerusalem ".

* In 2011, the State of Texas lived under a drought emergency declaration for the entire calendar year.

This event promptly resulted in the declaration of New Zealand's first National State of Emergency.

In accordance with the Belgian Constitution, upon the declaration of the King's incapacity, the Council of Ministers assumed the powers of the Head of State until Parliament could rule on the King's incapacity and appoint a Regent.

In his initial declaration to the chamber the new premier had declared his intention of continuing the policy of the late cabinet, pledging the new ministry to a policy of conciliation, to the consideration of old age pensions, an income-tax, separation of Church and State.

The addresses delivered in the Catholic congress at Mechelen were a declaration in the direction of a Liberal solution of the problem of the relations of Church and State.

In 1776, he undertook negotiations with the northwestern Indians on behalf of his Colony and that year he acted as vice president of the State constitutional convention, so then that led to helping draft a declaration of rights.

Two months after Britain's declaration of war on the Ottoman Empire in November 1914, Zionist British cabinet member Herbert Samuel circulated a memorandum entitled The Future of Palestine to his cabinet colleagues.

That was the fount and origin of the famous declaration about the National Home for the Jews in Palestine .... As soon as I became Prime Minister I talked the whole matter over with Mr Balfour, who was then Foreign Secretary.

The initial draft of the declaration, contained in a letter sent by Rothschild to Balfour, referred to the principle " that Palestine should be reconstituted as the National Home of the Jewish people.

; 1915 January: Two months after the British declaration of war against the Ottomans, Herbert Samuel presents a detailed memorandum entitled s: The Future of Palestine to the British Cabinet on the benefits of a British protectorate over Palestine to support Jewish immigration

Back in the summer of 1940 and again in February 1941, al-Husseini submitted to the Nazi German Government a draft declaration of German-Arab cooperation, containing a clause: Germany and Italy recognize the right of the Arab countries to solve the question of the Jewish elements, which exist in Palestine and in the other Arab countries, as required by the national and ethnic ( völkisch ) interests of the Arabs, and as the Jewish question was solved in Germany and Italy.

The council passed a series of resolutions culminating on 1 October 1948 with a declaration of independence over the whole of Palestine, with Jerusalem as its capital.

As far back as 1988, the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) issued a " declaration of statehood ” and changed the name of its observer delegation to the United Nations from the PLO to Palestine.

The British stressed that the terms of the Anglo-French declaration had superseded the Sykes – Picot Agreement in order to justify fresh negotiations over the allocation of the territories of Syria, Mesopotamia, and Palestine.

A new feature was brought into the case in November 1917, when Mr Balfour, with the authority of the War Cabinet, issued his famous declaration to the Zionists that Palestine ' should be the national home of the Jewish people, but that nothing should be done – and this, of course, was a most important proviso – to prejudice the civil and religious rights of the existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine.

The new WJC Executive immediately drew up a declaration asking the British government not to halt immigration into Palestine and presented it to British diplomats in Bern, Switzerland.

A new feature was brought into the case in November 1917, when Mr Balfour, with the authority of the War Cabinet, issued his famous declaration to the Zionists that Palestine ' should be the national home of the Jewish people, but that nothing should be done — and this, of course, was a most important proviso — to prejudice the civil and religious rights of the existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine.

The decision to allow the United Nations to determine Palestine's future was formalised by the Attlee government's public declaration in February 1947 that Britain's Mandate in Palestine had become " unworkable.

In the meantime, local expectations had been raised to a pitch by the declaration of the Syrian Congress on March 7 of the independence of Syria and Palestine, with Faisal as its king.

Two months after Britain's declaration of war on the Ottoman Empire in November 1914, Samuel circulated a memorandum entitled The Future of Palestine to his cabinet colleagues, suggesting that Palestine become a home for the Jewish people.

Their conclusions confirmed the opposition of Syrians to the mandate in their country as well as to the Balfour declaration, and their demand of a unified Greater Syria encompassing Palestine.

Upon completing the reading of the declaration, Arafat, as Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization assumed the title of " President of Palestine.

Despite the creation of the State of Palestine, at the time of the declaration, the Palestine Liberation Organization did not exercise control over any territory, and designated Jerusalem as the capital of Palestine, which was under Israeli control and claimed by it as Israel's capital.

Dominus Iesus () is a declaration by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

The Manifesto of the Italian Fasci of Combat () was the initial declaration of the political stance of the founders of Italian Fascism.

* January 7: an international coalition of hackers ( including CULT OF THE DEAD COW, 2600's staff, Phracks staff, L0pht, and the Chaos Computer Club ) issued a joint statement () condemning the LoU's declaration of war.

The Finnish declaration of independence () was adopted by the Parliament of Finland on 6 December 1917.

To France and to the world Gramont was responsible for the policy which put his country definitely into the wrong in the eyes of Europe, and enabled Bismarck to administer to her the " slap in the face " () as Gramont called it in the Chamber by means of the mutilated " Ems telegram ," which was the immediate cause of the French declaration of war on the 15th.

The Cyrus Cylinder () is an ancient clay cylinder, now broken into several fragments, on which is written a declaration in Akkadian cuneiform script in the name of the Achaemenid king Cyrus the Great.