Notes 3: Declaration of Independence

If a group of people wish to abolish their government, what do they need to do first?

• Declare the reasons why

• Declare War

• Start a riot

• Throw hands in the hall

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.

This is referred to as what?

• Declaration of Civil Rights

• Natural Rights

• Declaration of Independence

• Declaration of Natural Rights

That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, ---- Who is responsible for protecting a citizens rights?

• John Locke

• The people

• God

• The Government

The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. ---- What history does the Americans have with the King?

• A history of problems

• He taxed them a lot

• a history of repeated

  injuries and usurpations

• The Sugar Act

How many grievances are in the DOI?

• 27

• 4

• 57

• 22

The preamble of the DOI states...

• List of the colonists’ complaints with England

• Explains that in a republic, the government is there to protect the rights of the people

• Declares that the colonies are “Free and Independent States”

• Explains why they wrote the Declaration of Independence

The Resolution of Independence of the DOI states

• List of the colonists’ complaints with England

• Explains that in a republic, the government is there to protect the rights of the people

• Declares that the colonies are “Free and Independent States”

• Explains why they wrote the Declaration of Independence

The Declaration of Rights (DOI) states

• List of the colonists’ complaints with England

• Explains that in a republic, the government is there to protect the rights of the people

• Declares that the colonies are “Free and Independent States”

• Explains why they wrote the Declaration of Independence

The list of grievences in the DOI state

• List of the colonists’ complaints with England

• Explains that in a republic, the government is there to protect the rights of the people

• Declares that the colonies are “Free and Independent States”

• Explains why they wrote the Declaration of Independence

What was the purpose of the Declaration of Independence?

• To complain to the king about the grievances that was faced by the 13 colonies

• To create a new government in the 13 Colonies

• To show why the colonies were revolting against Britain and Declaring their Independence

• To create a new laws in the 13 Colonies