President Bush called the A.D.A. "the world's first comprehensive declaration of equality for people with disabilities," and, allaying concerns that it would put a litigious yoke on the private sector, he framed it as sound conservative policy.
Late in 1926, at the Imperial Conference in London, King's was probably the determining voice in securing the declaration of equality of status of the self-governing nations of the empire, thereafter styled the Commonwealth.
But as legal officials observe the anniversary of what is widely considered one of the most significant judicial declarations of equality under law, many say that the promise inherent in the Gideon ruling remains unfulfilled because so many legal needs still go unmet.
When we think of the Declaration we tend to think of the declaration of human equality: "that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness".
The Old Finns were rewarded with control of the Senate, of which Yrjö-Koskinen became head, as well as with a declaration of Finnish equality with Swedish in all public business.
So, most asylum seekers have documents that allow them to work in the U.S. but not, in the eyes of ICE, to be in the U.S. In short, when we say that they are "undocumented," what we mean is that they lack a document that would entitle them to feel free in a country founded on a declaration of the fundamental equality and inalienable rights of all people.
A second generation dared to take a bolder political stance in the 1970s and 1980s, demanding that Israel honour commitments made in the Declaration of Independence to equality of citizenship.
Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality.
This year's Pre-read for the incoming freshmen was Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality by political theorist Danielle Allen '93.
Allen's book is Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality; Lee's is the novel On Such a Full Sea.
Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality, by DANIELLE ALLEN â93, has been named a finalist for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction.
