As many know, 15-20 September 1986 was the week that a bunch of delegates convened in Punta Del Este, Uruguay, to kick off the Uruguay Round negotiation leading up to the creation of the WTO. This meeting concluded in a document called The Punta Del Este Declaration (which was actually the second Punte Del Este Declaration, I now know) on 20 September 1986.
(My apologies to Thomas Jefferson)
When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the citizen long guaranteed by our Constitution, a decent respect to the opinions of humankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to that separation.
(I wrote this a few years ago - 2012 - and even though it's been published before, I think it's more pertinent this primary season than it ever has been. apologies for publishing again.)
(My apologies to Thomas Jefferson)
(My apologies to Thomas Jefferson)
When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the citizen long guaranteed by our Constitution, a decent respect to the opinions of humankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to that separation.
