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.
Word Origin and History for relative Expand. n. late 14c., a relative pronoun, from Old French relatif (13c.), from Late Latin relativus having reference or relation, from Latin relatus, past participle of referre to refer (see refer). Meaning person in the same family first recorded 1650s.