When we think of the Declaration we tend to think of the declaration of human equality: "that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness".
If so, I wondered what Huffington Post readers like you would think of the top 5 declarations (of the 17 original declarations), translated from German by Jenna L. Brinning, and reproduced in English below.
People see it and immediately think of the White House or Declaration of Independence, because it has come to be associated with those things in the same way that the French flag conjures images of the Eiffel Tower or the wide countryside of France.
This is the document -- with all the signatures, especially the big one by John Hancock -- that most people think of as The Declaration.
When I was invited by the Tony Blair Faith Foundation and others to take part in the series of discussions about faith and development, I thought of that declaration which I had read as a young priest in the Philippines, 40 years ago.
It is not hard to find evidence of mainstream economists being overconfident about their knowledge – think of all their declarations, in the years before the 2008 crisis, that the days of economic fluctuation and instability were over.
Think of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution as two of the hottest pieces of software ever written, the very source code of democracy and American prosperity.
I think of Walter Pater's declaration: "The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit is to rouse, to startle it to a life of sharp and eager observation...
As the Fort Greene-based designer describes the cohesive universe that constitutes her jewelry, clothing, and drawings, it's impossible not to think of Carson's declaration, "There is no person without a world".
And what should one think, for example, of the declarations of Ayman Nur, the leader of Hizb al Ghad and historic figure of the oppositon who, when the Supreme Council of the Army announced that "the international pacts and treaties" would be respected, declared he was in favour of a revision of the treaty with Israel?
