The Declaration serves as a "common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations" rather than a legally binding document, but it has become the basis of two binding treaties, the 1966 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
Although the meanings of these phrases, together with conclusions drawn from them, have been endlessly debated, the declaration has served to justify the extension of American political and social democracy.
And like Condorcet (and the authors of the 1789 "Ladies Requestt"), he points to the nation's outright hypocrisy, where the Declaration of Rights serves to perpetuate an aristocracy of men and smuggle in old régime principles.
Or, it could have traced his political career, during which he helped draft the Declaration of Independence and served as the American ambassador to France.
Chase later signed the Declaration of Independence and served with great distinction on the Supreme Court, even though he is best known today as the only member ever to be impeached.
This speech kept them to a minimum: the only direct quote it used was the "self-evident truths" line from the Declaration of Independence, which served as a unifying frame.
Ed's declaration also served to weaken his main rival in the leadership race, fixing his elder brother in a Blair-era time-warp from which he has yet to emerge.
Although not legally binding, the declaration was intended to serve as "a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations".
Chan said the declaration of a PHEIC serves as "an urgent call for international solidarity".
In addition to authoring the Declaration of Independence and serving as the young country's third president, he was also a philosopher, an inventor, an architect, a student of agricultural sciences and an avid reader, accumulating the country's largest personal collection of books (nearly 7,000).
