ABSTRACT
The declaration which founds an institution, a constitution or a State requires that a signer engage him- or herself. The signature maintains a link with the instituting act, as an act of language and of writing, a link which has absolutely nothing of the empirical accident about it. The instance of judgment, at the level of the supreme judge, is the last instance for saying the fact and the law. One can understand this Declaration as a vibrant act of faith, as a hypocrisy indispensable to a politico-military-economic, etc. coup of force, or, more simply, more economically, as the analytic and consequential deployment of a tautology: for this Declaration to have a meaning and an effect, there must be a last instance. An exercise in comparative literature, which would treat unusual objects for specialized departments in this improbable discipline of "comparative literature".
