| LIBERTYBELL | Declaration of |
| IMHERE | Declaration of |
| ENLIGHTENMENT | Age of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen |
| ADAMS | Samuel ___ (1722-1803), US statesman; an instigator of the Boston Tea Party and one of the 56 signatories of the Declaration of Independence (5) |
| PHILADELPHIA | City in South East Pennsylvania, scene of the signing of the Declaration of Independence (12) |
| ANNULMENT | Declaration of invalidity, of a marriage say (9) |
| UNIVERSAL | Resolution adopted unanimously by the members of the United Nations in 1948, the ... Declaration of |
| JOHNHANCOCK | Signatory of the US Declaration of Independence whose name has become a synonym for a signature (4,7 |
| SAMUELADAMS | Declaration of Independence signer for whom a brand of beer is named: 2 wds. |
| ISLEOFMAN | Declaration of passion for fellow may be heard in isolated part of kingdom |
| IMAMATE | Declaration of friend in position of Muslim leader |
| IANSMITH | Prime minister of Rhodesia responsible for the Unilateral Declaration of Independence in 1965 |
| RIGHTS | Bill of - - -, formal declaration of entitlements and freedoms (6) |
| THOMASJEFFERSON | Draughtsman of the Declaration of Independence, who nevertheless has been criticised as a slave- owner with racist views (6,9) |
| PAINE | American Revolutionary leader and signer of the Declaration of Independence (1731-1814). |
| PROTEST | Declaration of the nonamateur game of cricket (7) |
| MISSOURI | U.S. battleship on which Japan signed its declaration of surrender at the end of World War II in 1945 (8) |
| FOUNDING | The _ Fathers, a loosely defined group of US statesmen including those behind the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution (8) |
| THOMAS | - Jefferson, principal author of the US Declaration of Independence (6) |
| ALGERIA | African nation in which the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Peoples was proclaimed on July 4, 1976 |
