Mecklenburg, North Carolina, is celebrating its own Declaration of Independence claiming it was signed a year before all the American colonies split from British rule.

NICK DE LA CANAL, BYLINE: If you've never heard of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence ... on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. This text may not be in its final form and may be ...

The Declaration of Independence is the culmination of that ... After Adams and Benjamin Franklin both made minor edits to Jefferson’s text, it was ready to be presented to the Continental ...

The full text of the state of Israel’s “proclamation of Independence,” released ... This right was acknowledged by the Balfour Declaration of November 2, 1917, and reaffirmed by the mandate ...