Mr. Rubenstein was tied at No. 165 on the Forbes 400 last year with a reported fortune of $2.5 billion; in December, he paid $21.3 million for a 710-year-old copy of the Magna Carta, a British declaration of human rights that served as the foundation for the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution).
Beyond the demonization of Israel's right to defend its citizens from attack, such cynical distortions undermine the moral foundation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Both documents have been lent to the British Library for this exhibition.Across the Atlantic, the charter inspired two of America's foundation documents, the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights.
Every citizen has a right to take part personally, or through his representative, in its foundation," said the declaration that hailed the revolution of 1789.
Today, I would like to address the people of the United States of America, the people who, since the foundation of their nation and adoption of the Declaration of Independence, have been proud to hold freedom above all else.
These two Covenants used the foundation of the rights and principles in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and thus provided a legal as well as a moral obligation for countries to respect the human rights of each individual.
It is no exaggeration to say that the 14th Amendment is the constitutional embodiment of the Declaration of Independence and lays the foundation for the American Dream.
The study was approved by the "Foundation Salvatore Maugeri", Pavia Italy, Ethics Committee, and was conducted in accordance with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki; all of the subjects gave their informed consent.
www.historychannel.com/Declaration A history of the Declaration of Independence.
"The core of the declaration is political.
