The Rhodesians modelled their independence document on that of the American Thirteen Colonies in 1776, which remains the only other such proclamation in the history of the British Empire.
Here we expect a high similarity in spite of the independence among documents, because the words in all documents are drawn from the identical Zipf distribution.
Also, the independence of documents from one another improves performance and decreases concurrency side effects [3].
On display are independence-era documents and religious articles said to have belonged to Hidalgo.
Echoing the Declaration of Independence, the document stated: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal".
It is the SNP's fabled white paper on independence – a document so portentous that already magical powers have been ascribed to it.
It's the white paper on independence, a document that is intended to answer all the outstanding questions about how Scotland would become independent, and what the new nation would be like, if Scots vote to leave the United Kingdom in the referendum on 18 September next year.
While political maneuvering was setting the stage for an official declaration of independence, a document explaining the decision was being written.
The phrase "consent of the governed" first appears in the Declaration of Independence, the document by which the United States declared itself no longer under the governance of the British king.
Three short weeks ago Edinburgh Castle played host to Alex Salmond's launch of the Scottish government's independence referendum consultation document.
