"The founders, in writing the Declaration of Independence, said that we had been endowed by our creator with certain unalienable rights, among them life — life — liberty and the pursuit of happiness," Mr. Romney said.
In keeping with the play's device of mixing in historical figures, Mr. West interviews several of the founding fathers, including Thomas Jefferson (who inveighs against the creation of a federal government, to Mr. West's delight) and Benjamin Franklin, who corrects Mr. West that the founders showed "singular intent" in writing the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
Jefferson later said in writing the Declaration that he was striving for an "expression of the American mind".
The man most instrumental in writing the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, was not an atheist but he did not regard Christ as divine nor is there any mention in the Declaration of Independence of Jesus or Christianity.
In writing this declaration, Jefferson transformed the clunky language of natural rights that he had recently used on behalf of Howell and turned them into a lyrical and powerful statement of universal liberty and equality.
Informed consent was obtained in writing in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.
Subprograms in package declaration allows writing subprograms that implement useful operations and to call them from a number of different modules.
At six regional conferences, delegates discussed their local priorities as well as opportunities for concerted action, which were then delineated in written declarations.
Informed consent was obtained from all patients and experiments were performed according to the declaration of Helsinki as approved in written form by the ethical committee of the medical faculty of the Ludwig Maximilians University Munich (LMU 068-08) and the Children's Hospital of the TU Munich (TU 2115/08).
This resentment first came to the surface in a declaration written in Boulogne by a group of magnates who were with the king when he was in France for his marriage ceremony to the French king's daughter.
Still, this book irritates a bit with some of its complacent assertions, such as that Rimbaud's famous declaration (in a letter written at age 16), "Je est un autre" ("I is someone else"), "meant that in the act of introspection we objectify the self, we experience our self as if it belongs to another person," which takes banality to the point of distortion.
