A charter of children's rights drafted by Jebb, known as the Geneva Declaration (1923), was adopted by the League of Nations in 1924 and later became the basis of the Declaration of the Rights of the Child, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1959, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989), which has been ratified by almost all countries.
When the lawyer claimed that the commandments were the basis of the Declaration of Independence, Scalia called the argument "idiotic".
Oil production in Yasuní should take place only upon application by the president, and only on the basis of a declaration of national interest by the national assembly.
We live in a modern European country, yet we have a law that divides people up into types and categories and says that the basis of the declaration on human rights is a crime.
On the basis of this Declaration, a Joint River Commission JRCC) was formed in 1972.
Sincerity may sometimes matter in the context of public deliberation (e.g., in order to be able to predict the likelihood of future courses of action on the basis of present declarations by politicians), but certainly not for exactly the same reasons and to the same extent as it does in private relationships.
In the chemical weapons area, the basis of the current declaration is a declaration submitted by Iraq in 1996 with subsequent updates and explanations.
Locke's views were a powerful force in the intellectual life of 18th-century colonial America and constituted the philosophical basis of the American Declaration of Independence (1776), many of whose drafters, particularly Thomas Jefferson (1743 1826), were well acquainted with Locke's writings.
