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.
Relative pronouns used as a possessive in a restrictive relative clause: Whose is the only possessive relative pronoun in English. The antecedent of  whose  can be both people and things: The family whose house burnt in the fire was immediately given a complimentary suite in a hotel.