So how did this small settlement come to declare itself an independent country?
If he does wish to declare this suit trump, he says "pick it up".
"We cannot continue to grant legitimacy to the delegitimizing that is done to us," declared Yuval Steinitz, a Likud member of Parliament.
On some deep level, that, for me, is the most American thing to do, is to declare yourself.
The thing to do is to declare any convictions (if asked) and note that each case is judged on its own merits.
"All the Legislature has to do is to declare that a given issue is their turf, and there will be no ability for municipalities to enact any meaningful legislation to make their situation better," he said.
But sometimes you do have to declare that you're not interested in fighting down, if only to remind everyone who the boss really is.
"The Taiwanese people don't want to declare independence, but they don't want unification now either".
What does it take to declare yourself not of "the elite"?
Mr. Chen now says that since Taiwan already functions like a state it does not need to declare independence.
