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That would be the Declaration of Independence, signed by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776.
Natural rights are rights not dependent upon laws, customs, or beliefs. There are three natural, or inalienable, rights laid out by the Declaration of Independence. These are the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
The Declaration of Independence was written to describe "inalienable rights". These are rights the founding fathers believed are given to people by god--rights that can not be taken away. The idea is that government is created to protect these rights.
It refers to them as "inalienable rights" which are those human rights due everyone, regardless of their society or system of government. Inalienable means "cannot be given up to others."
That phrase "We the people..." is not in the Declaration of Independence. It is in the US Constitution.
The Declaration of Independence stated that United States citizens have the right to independence from Britain.
The word used, as an example, in the Declaration of Independence is: Unalienable.
It changed people's mind that they needed and wanted freedom from British, even thought it was true.
In the Declaration of Independence, they where fighting for freedom. The idea that all people have a right to life and liberty.
56 people signed the declaration of independence.
its what gave us our independence from england
Declaration of Independence.