natural rights (john Locke)
Cause they just are
The Declaration of Independence is a letter to the king telling of problems in the colonies. Jefferson wrote a statement based on the Enlightenment thinkers philosophies and basically there was no idea dealing with social participation. This was NOT the purpose of the Declaration.
The Enlightenment was the literary and philosophical movement in Europe that greatly influenced the Declaration of Independence. The idea of the consent of the governed, for example, was drawn from philosophers of the movement.
People are born with natural rights, freedom
It is right in the first paragraph that man has the right to change his government when it no longer works for him.
The passage from the Declaration of Independence that reflects the Enlightenment principle of popular sovereignty is the statement that governments derive "their just powers from the consent of the governed." This emphasizes that the authority of the government is legitimate only when it is based on the will of the people. It embodies the Enlightenment idea that political power should rest with the citizens, who have the right to alter or abolish a government that fails to protect their rights.
In the Declaration of Independence, they where fighting for freedom. The idea that all people have a right to life and liberty.
There are a great number of ideas that are not included in the Declaration of Independence. One idea is human fashion.
congress moved quickly to write and adopt the declaration of independence
declaring independence idiot
Government should exist with the consent of the people.
the adoption of the Declaration of Independence sparked bitter disunity among the colonists.