Sentence examples for drafters of the declaration from inspiring English sources

The drafters of the Declaration of Independence, who wrote so pointedly and precisely, were very clear on where those inalienable rights came from - the Creator.

As one of the drafters of the declaration of Arctic sovereignty, he says his goal is to "make sure that the players in the Arctic area, while talking about the environment, climate change and development, realise we are already there.

Because they were Enlightenment thinkers, the drafters of the declaration, particularly Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin, began by positing basic premises, an analytic approach that reflected the philosophical methods of John Locke and the scientific method of Isaac Newton.

In one inspiring chapter, a Massachusetts house slave, Mum Bett, learned the language of freedom from those she served: at her master's table were some drafters of the Declaration of Independence, and she wondered why the rights they articulated did not extend to her.

Delving into the background of the drafting of the UDHR, she explains her purpose: to establish how completely different the world of 1945 was to 17th and 18th-century Europe: "The idea that somehow the drafters of the declaration were picking up the pen from where Locke, Paine, Kant and Voltaire left off to have another go and make their ideas stick this time just doesn't wash".

Their ideology had no borders, and the drafters of the Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights saw a time when such would extend to women as well as men, to persons of all colors and religious/non-religious beliefs.

Like advocates of the market for more than 200 years, the drafter of the declaration cannot abide the idea of "the commons" – commonly held resources whose reproduction and use is not subject to the laws of finance.

Three of the five drafter of the Declaration of Independence proposed that Moses be the face of the new United States.

As she said: "With all due respect to the drafters of the American Declaration of Independence, all men and women are not created equal, at least in regard to their characters, abilities and aptitudes".

It was this insight that drove drafters of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights after the Second World War.

The drafters of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights did not only envision a world where every man and woman has rights.