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  2. 'We hold these truths to be self-evident.' The Declaration of ...

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    In Congress, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America. When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political ...

  3. United States Declaration of Independence - Wikipedia

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    The signed Declaration of Independence, now badly faded because of poor preservation practices during the 19th century, is on display at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. On July 4, 1776, Second Continental Congress President John Hancock's signature authenticated the Declaration of Independence.

  4. Rights of nature - Wikipedia

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    In addition to Stone's legal work, other late twentieth and early twenty-first century drivers of the rights of nature movement include indigenous perspectives and the work of the indigenous rights movement; [24] [88] the writings of Arne Naess and the Deep Ecology movement; [89] [90] Thomas Berry's 2001 jurisprudential call for recognizing the ...

  5. Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness - Wikipedia

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    "Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness" is a well-known phrase from the United States Declaration of Independence. [1] The phrase gives three examples of the unalienable rights which the Declaration says have been given to all humans by their Creator, and which governments are created to protect. Like the other principles in the ...

  6. The Religion of Nature Delineated - Wikipedia

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    By the time of the Revolution, a generation of Colonials had been exposed to the ideas of natural religion in the form of "Nature and Nature's God", and "the pursuit of Happiness" — both of which may be found in the United States Declaration of Independence. [11] Thomas Jefferson referred to it in a letter to Thomas Law. [12]

  7. List of international declarations - Wikipedia

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    Declaration of Boulogne: Defines "Esperantism" as a movement to promote the widespread use of Esperanto. 1909: Declaration of London: An international code of maritime law. 1916: Proclamation of the Irish Republic: Proclaims Irish independence from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. 1919: Declaration of Independence (Ireland)

  8. The story of the only man who signed the Declaration of ... - AOL

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    Wikimedia Commons. He later signed another oath, declaring his allegiance to the state of New Jersey and to the United States. To make a living, he reopened his law practice and trained new students.

  9. Charters of Freedom - Wikipedia

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    The documents include the United States Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. While the term has not entered particularly common usage, the room at the National Archives Building in Washington, D.C. that houses the three documents is called the Rotunda for the Charters of Freedom.