Historically, John Hancock was one of the signers of the United States Declaration of Independence.

VOA: special.2010.02.07

On July fourth,seventeen seventy-six, colonial leaders approved the final Declaration of Independence for the United States.

VOA: special.2009.06.29

The Cyrus Cylinder was unearthed roughly about 100 years after the United States Declaration of Independence was published.

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The founding fathers of the U.S. have probably captured these truths better than anybody, and codified them into the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America.

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France's yearning for a European declaration of independence from the United States seems to be shared by the German and Russian governments and most of the European left.

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