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.
Definition of RELATIVE MOTION. 1. : motion as observed from or referred to some material system constituting a frame of reference (as two adjacent walls and floor of a room) â see relativity 3. 2. : the motion of one body with respect to another regarded as fixed â compare relative velocity.