This show about the signing of the Declaration of Independence, of all things, came out of left field to win the 1969 Tony Award for best musical.
Although the run-off vote is free, and anybody on the electoral roll who signs a declaration of support for the "values of the left" can take part, his backing could nonetheless be decisive.
In the summer of 1776, with worsening palsy in his hands, Hopkins signed the Declaration of Independence while holding his right hand with his left, saying, "my hand trembles, but my heart does not".
These works which typify much of recent debate are nothing but a declaration of their architect's compassion; a greeting card congratulating the left for its beauty.
With internal cracks and dissension widening, Prime Minister Romano Prodi called for a declaration of support among the diverse partners in his fragile center-left government.
Yes, says an unabashed Jean-Pierre Chevènement, France's fervently left-wing interior minister, "because in the [1789] Declaration of the Rights of Man, the basic right to security is put on a par with liberty".
Crucially, the left neglected those social and economic rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Without the left communists to oppose its adoption, Rocker's thoroughly anarchist "Prinzipienerklärung des Syndikalismus" ("Declaration of Syndicalist Principles"), which the Business Commission had charged him with drafting, became the FAUD's platform without much controversy.
Answer: "The Declaration of Independence".
"This Universal Declaration of Human Rights . . .
