def stylesheet_declarations(string, is_merc=False, scale=1):
    """ Parse a string representing a stylesheet into a list of declarations.
    
        Required boolean is_merc indicates whether the projection should
        be interpreted as spherical mercator, so we know what to do with
        zoom/scale-denominator in parse_rule().
    """
    # everything is display: map by default
    display_map = Declaration(Selector(SelectorElement(['*'], [])),
                              Property('display'), Value('map', False),
                              (False, (0, 0, 0), (0, 0)))
    
    declarations = [display_map]

    tokens = cssTokenizer().tokenize(string)
    variables = {}
    
    while True:
        try:
            for declaration in parse_rule(tokens, variables, [], [], is_merc):
                if scale != 1:
                    declaration.scaleBy(scale)
            
                declarations.append(declaration)
        except StopIteration:
            break
    
    # sort by a css-like method
    return sorted(declarations, key=operator.attrgetter('sort_key'))