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.
adj. 1. having meaning or significance only in relation to something else; not absolute: a relative value. 2. (prenominal) (of a scientific quantity) being measured or stated relative to some other substance or measurement Compare absolute 10: relative humidity; relative density.elÂ·aÂ·tive. adj. 1. Considered in comparison or relation to something else: an animal with a large brain relative to body size; the relative quiet of the suburbs.