All of us are created equal, the Declaration proclaims, and endowed with certain unalienable rights.
It also states that no person should be enslaved, tortured, or deprived of the right to a trial before a "national tribunal". Thus the Declaration proclaims negative rights, whereby national governments may not engage in certain activities against persons.
Member states of the European Community, through the Copenhagen Declaration proclaimed their determination to "defend" the principles of representative democracy, rule of law, social justice and human rights (King 1999).
"We, the leaders of our people, democratically elected, through this declaration proclaim Kosovo an independent and sovereign state".
On October 23 , 1995 Frederick Massimi received from his Holiness Pope John Paul, II, a Papal declaration, proclaiming him Knight Commander in the Order of Saint Gregory the Great.
Modeled on the United States Declaration of Independence, Stanton's declaration proclaimed that men and women are created equal.
The Declaration of Independence proclaims that all persons are endowed by their Creator with the unalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; and that the purpose of government is to secure these rights.
Half a century ago the philosopher Leo Strauss remarked that the passage in which the Declaration of Independence proclaims its self-evident truths "has frequently been quoted, but, by its weight and its elevation, it is made immune to the degrading effects of the excessive familiarity which breeds contempt and of misuse which breeds disgust".
The Declaration of Independence proclaims we are endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights, and among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
The very next sentence in the Declaration of Independence proclaims that "To secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just power from the consent of the governed".
Rather, the Revolutionary generation of 1776 enshrined that standard in the Declaration of Independence, proclaiming that "all men are created equal".
