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They mean that the people have a right to choose the government and when the government doesn't serve the people they have the right to change the government.
It says if the rights of a people are allienated/violated, it is okay to break away from that government.
Jefferson doesn't use the term but for him it would have meant logic. To think something through and in the Declaration you can see his logic in the first paragraph or two when he explains why government is important, what it should do for the people, and why the people have the right to change government.
According to the Declaration of Independence, the government should protect the rights the people have been given. Should the government fail in this fundamental duty, the people have the right to overthrow the government.
The people.
The people have the right to change government when it no longer works for the people.
They mean that the people have a right to choose the government and when the government doesn't serve the people they have the right to change the government.
1. That governments are formed by people for protection and services 2. When that government no longer serves the people it is the right of the people to change the government.
It says if the rights of a people are allienated/violated, it is okay to break away from that government.
Jefferson doesn't use the term but for him it would have meant logic. To think something through and in the Declaration you can see his logic in the first paragraph or two when he explains why government is important, what it should do for the people, and why the people have the right to change government.
According to the Declaration of Independence, the government should protect the rights the people have been given. Should the government fail in this fundamental duty, the people have the right to overthrow the government.
The people have the right to change the government. One of the things you have to know when this was written it was a revolutionary idea. The world for a 1000 years had been ruled by kings with no ability for the population to change the government. To suggest that the people could change the government was very new thinking. For us, it isn't because we can change the government through voting and taking part in the government.
According to the Declaration of Independence, people possess four unalienable rights: life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, and to change or abolish a destructive government and initiate a new government.
No, the Declaration says that government derives its power directly from the people.
According to the Declaration of Independence, the government should protect the rights the people have been given. Should the government fail in this fundamental duty, the people have the right to overthrow the government.
The people.
The government