Here's principle No. 1: Strict adherence to the original intent of the Declaration of Independence and United States and Texas Constitutions.
But how are we supposed to adhere to the original intent of the Declaration of Independence, whose insurrectionary provenance we'll be reminded of regularly this week?
They called Bennett's suggestion that the declaration should be interpreted to fit within Canada's constitutional framework a fundamental departure "from the spirit and intent of the Declaration itself," adding that ideally, the opposite would happen.
If one interprets the intent of the Millennium Declaration as an aspiration for the entire human population, the world as a whole is on track to achieve MDG 4 by 2015.
In keeping with the play's device of mixing in historical figures, Mr. West interviews several of the founding fathers, including Thomas Jefferson (who inveighs against the creation of a federal government, to Mr. West's delight) and Benjamin Franklin, who corrects Mr. West that the founders showed "singular intent" in writing the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
I am very grateful to all those who joined the ceremonial signing of the Declaration of intent to create the Babi Yar Holocaust Memorial Center -- public figures, philanthropists, historians, and museum experts -- from around the world.
But taken as a statement of intent, the Taliban's declaration offers an instructive glimpse into their thinking.
He himself was, from the start, a master formalist, and the declaration of intent in "Green Hills of Africa" deserves to be taken literally.
Furthermore, the declaration of intent is explicit in its statement that embryos "cannot be used to produce pregnancy against the wishes of the partner" – the circumstances in which Lee and Findley found themselves.
But the declaration of intent on picketing sank the Carr review, especially when, without waiting for any results from the review, the Tories moved straight to their own politically inspired verdict.
The declaration of intent makes clear that the options for patients regarding unused embryos are "discarding the cryopreserved embryo(s)", "donating the cryopreserved embryo(s) for approved research studies", "donating the cryopreserved embryos to another couple in order to attempt pregnancy", or "use by one partner with the contemporaneous permission of the other for that use".
