The story being discussed in class that day was "The Conversion of the Jews," a small tragicomedy about a thirteen-year-old Hebrew-school student with a lot of uncomfortable questions for his rabbi, beginning with how he "could call the Jews 'The Chosen People' if the Declaration of Independence claimed all men to be created equal".
Benjamin Rush, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, claimed that Washington had "so much martial dignity in his deportment that... there is not a king in Europe that would not look like a valet de chambre by his side".
Witherspoon has claimed descent from Scottish-born John Witherspoon, who signed the United States Declaration of Independence; this claim has not been verified by the Society of the Descendants of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence genealogists.
Albanians and others say that Mr Marty was opposed to Kosovo's declaration of independence, and claim his report is part of a campaign to smear the new state.Mr Marty has also been attacked for not revealing details about his sources.
The political abolitionists embraced the Declaration of Independence's claim that "all men are created equal".
The U.S. Declaration of Independence (1776) claims that people are "endowed by their Creator" with natural rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Originally, both national councils (the Polish Rada Narodowa Księstwa Cieszyńskiego in its declaration "Ludu śląski!" of 30 October 1918 and the Czech Zemský národní výbor pro Slezsko in its declaration of 1 November 1918) claimed the whole Cieszyn Silesia for themselves.
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No one believed more passionately in this version of "Whig principles" than Thomas Jefferson, who, as the principal author of the Declaration of Independence, could plausibly claim authority on the matter.
Gary, another member, added: "The Declaration of Arbroath and the Claim of Right 1689 show we are an independent people.
Backers of the New York declaration on forests claim their efforts could save between 4.5bn and 8.8bn tonnes of carbon emissions per year by 2030 – the equivalent of taking all the world's cars off the road.
