Yet Jefferson was a prodigious writer, who left behind a rich philosophical legacy in his declarations, presidential messages and addresses, public papers, numerous bills, letters to philosophically minded correspondents, and his only book, Notes on the State of Virginia.
One of Nyerere's more important works was a paper called "Ujamaa the Basis for African Socialism," which later served as the philosophical basis for the Arusha Declaration of 1967.
Locke's views were a powerful force in the intellectual life of 18th-century colonial America and constituted the philosophical basis of the American Declaration of Independence (1776), many of whose drafters, particularly Thomas Jefferson (1743 1826), were well acquainted with Locke's writings.
After describing his own shattered inward reaction to Frankfurter's declaration, Karski makes a philosophical point of an extraordinary profundity.
The Declaration is not a philosophical tract about natural rights, argues Reid, but is instead a legal document an indictment against King George for violating the constitutional rights of the colonists.
Nagarjuna is credited with transforming the sutras' poetic and sometimes paradoxical declarations on emptiness into a philosophical system.
He insists, however, that Lincoln's inclusion of blacks within the Declaration of Independence was meant surreptitiously to subvert the philosophical underpinning not simply of slavery but of racism as well.
The proclaimed adoption of this philosophical shift was made particularly explicit through a series of declarations announcing a "wind of change" in the Bank's development practices.
That speech did more than articulate the conservative philosophy of governance; it was a declaration of ideological victory … … [A similarly] overarching philosophical argument was at the center of the 2012 election.
Prosecessionists found philosophical justification for altering or abolishing a government and instituting a new one in the Declaration of Independence.
