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In the Declaration of Independence, whom did the Americans indict for "repeated injuries and usurpations"?

• King George III, because of the crown's apparent intention to establish despotism
• Parliament, because of the oppressive legislation that it had passed over ten years
• British merchants, because their drive for personal profits had caused them to ignore the greater good of the empire
• The king's ministers, because they had refused to compromise and had turned the king and Parliament against the colonies

Both John Locke and Thomas Jefferson wrote about the natural rights of man. In what document are these "unalienable rights" specifically mentioned?

• the Bill of Rights
• the Mayflower Compact
• the Preamble to the Constitution
• the Declaration of Independence

The “Rule of Law” states that

• there should be no barriers to the right to vote.
• a just government derives its power from the governed.
• all people, including those who govern, must obey the law
• a country’s citizens are the source of the government's power.