Declaration of Independence preamble

What were the two philosophies the writers believed in when writing the Declaration of Independence

• Earned Rights & Natural Sovereignty

• Natural Rights & Natural Sovereignty

• Natural Sovereignty & Overthrowing the tyrant

• Rights & Privileges

We hold these truths to be

(a)  

• self-evident
• unclear
• silly

The three natural rights are: Life, Liberty, and ​ (a)  

• pursuit of Happiness.
• Technology.
• Family.
• Self government.

That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it...

What do we understand more after reading this quote from the Preamble?

• The government rule from Britain was harmful to the colonists, so they felt it was time to change or get rid of it completely.

• The government rule from France was harmful to the colonists, so they felt it was time to change or get rid of it completely.

• The government rule from Britain was favored by the colonists, so they felt it was time to change or get rid of it completely.

Match the following

• to cause

• self-evident

• Not able to be taken away

• usurpation

• obviously clear

• impel

• caution

• unalienable/ inalienable

• The use of authority wrongfully

• prudence

Natural sovereignty means that a government gets its power from its citizens. Which quote supports this philosophical idea?

• We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights

• That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

• a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

Natural rights means that there are rights that you are born with that cannot be taken away. Which quote supports this philosophical idea?

• We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.

• That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

• a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

What is another word for constrains in this sentence?

Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which ​constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.

• kindly asks

• allows

• forces