01 Revolutionary Ideas Declaration of Independence Popular Sovereignty Robert Marshall 8/20/2018
The Declaration of Independence was When it comes to popular sovereignty,
written so that King George III could not the people are the authority. The people infuriate colonists with his strict laws and taxes. The document was not are able to decide how their government approved until July 4, 1776. It has three works. The people can give consent to main components. One, it introduces the government, but they also have the the reasons the document was created. power not to consent. Two, it lists complaints about King George III. Three, the colonists state that the United States will be an independent nation. In addition to that, "He has dissolved Representative the document reflects popular Houses repeatedly, for opposing with sovereignty, the social contract theory, and natural and individual rights. manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused for such a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected." Social Contract Natural and Individual Rights Conclusion
The social contract is the idea that people
will consent government authority. In Life, liberty, and estate are what John Locke I think the Declaration of Independence return, the government will protect the referred to as the natural rights. Every upholds the political principles people and their rights. In the Declaration of person has these rights because they are a Americans value. The document reflects Independence, it states that a man's rights human. That means no government can take all of the important principles I learned will not be taken away from him. His rights it away. No other person can take it away. Before the Declaration of Independence was about in this lesson; I found examples of should be protected. If the people's rights are taken away from them, they have the right to approved, Locke altered the last right to be each. The writers of the Declaration of change or abolish their government and the pursuit of happiness. Independence accomplished their goals make a new one. because it showed that colonies were free and independent and were no "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that longer subject to King George III. If I had all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain been an American colonist, I would have "That whenever any form of government unalienable rights, that among these are supported it because it gave the becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." colonists many rights and freedoms. and to institute new government." Today, we might have not been given our rights and freedoms if it had not been for the Declaration of Independence.