In 1320 the world's first documented declaration of independence, the Declaration of Arbroath, won the support of Pope John XXII, leading to the legal recognition of Scottish sovereignty by the English Crown.
www.historychannel.com/Declaration A history of the Declaration of Independence.
But if, as he writes, "Germany and the United States would soon have been at war," declaration or no declaration, then why does the genesis of the declaration deserve a chapter of its own?
The overall impression, which I reported to the Council on Dec. 19 and which remains after some weeks of examination of the Declaration (Iraq's declaration of weapon programs on Dec. 7), is that it is rich in volume but poor in new information about weapons issues and practically devoid of new evidence on such issues.
A careful reading of the declaration together with the Cairo Declaration that preceded it and the Treaty of Shimonoseki of 1895 would tell him that the islands were not on the mind of world leaders at Potsdam.Moreover, the Chinese fishermen who trespassed on Japanese territorial seas in 2010 rammed their vessel repeatedly against a Japanese coastguard boat.
There is also a re-enactment of the signing of the Declaration of Arbroath (the declaration of Scottish independence) and in past years there has been a mock Viking invasion culminating in the burning of a longship.
The Manifesto of the Province of Flanders (1790) was the first foreign derivation of the Declaration; others include the Venezuelan Declaration of Independence (1811), the Liberian Declaration of Independence (1847), the declarations of secession by the Confederate States of America (1860 61), and the Vietnamese Proclamation of Independence (1945).
Based on it more famous sister, the Declaration of Independence, the first paragraph of the Declaration of Sentiments is identical.
So where does that put us? Regardless of if Edward Snowden is our Paul Revere or Benedict Arnold, then I would say somewhere between a Declaration of War and the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
Nor do I have any idea whether Danielle Allen's new book, Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality, is on his beach-reading list.
