The United States Declaration of Independence inspired many other similar documents in other countries, with its ideas gaining adherence in the Low Countries, as well as in the Caribbean, Spanish America, the Balkans, West Africa, and Central Europe in the decades up to 1848.
RELATIVE. One connected with another by blood or affinity; a relation, a kinsman or kinswoman. In an adjective sense, having relation or connexion with some other person or thing; as relative rights, relative powers. 1  Facebook. 2  Twitter.
uk â /ËmÃ¦dÊÉªstreÉªt/ us â LAW. âº a judge, often, in the UK, one without legal training, in a law court that deals with crimes that are not serious: appear before/be brought before a magistrate He appeared before a federal magistrate in New Orleans to face charges of accepting bribes.