🤍🔔 Monday Bell Ringer

“We hold these truths to be self-

evident, that all men are created equal; that they

are endowed with certain unalienable rights, that

among these are life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness"

• England has repeatedly interfered with colonists’ rights. In

  doing so, it has unfairly ruled over the American colonies.

• Governments are formed to make sure people’s rights are

  protected. Government power should come from the people.

• Individuals have some basic rights that are obvious and

  should not be taken away. Freedom, for example, is one of

  those rights.

• When a government is taking away the rights of citizens and

  is not doing what the people want, then the citizens have the

  right to change or replace the government.

“[T]hat whenever any form of

government becomes destructive [in protecting

rights and responding to the people], it is the right

of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute

a new government...”

• Governments are formed to make sure people’s rights are

  protected. Government power should come from the people.

• When one group of people is going to break away from a

  country to form its own nation, then they should explain

  why they are doing it.

• Individuals have some basic rights that are obvious and

  should not be taken away. Freedom, for example, is one of

  those rights.

• When a government is taking

  away the rights of citizens and is not doing what

  the people want, then the citizens have the right to

  change or replace the government.

“[T]o secure these [basic] rights,

governments are instituted among men, deriving

their just powers from the consent of the governed

• Every time we colonists felt we were being treated unfairly,

  we wrote the King. He answered by treating us more

  unfairly. A ruler who abuses his power should not be able to

  rule us.

• Governments are formed to make sure people’s rights are

  protected. Government power should come from the people.

• When one group of people is going to break away from a

  country to form its own nation, then they should explain

  why they are doing it.

• We now consider ourselves to be an independent country.