According to the declaration of independence when a government takes away the peoples rights to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness what are the people allowed to do?

Answer 1

When a government takes away all of the people's rights of life liberty and the pursuit of happiness, people are not allowed to do anything. However they are free to do whatever they want, though perhaps with consequences. Hopefully they will work together to try and free themselves of this oppression.

Answer 2

It states that the people have the right to change the government. This Enlightenment thinking doesn't have the same meaning now as it did when it was written. First, there is no way a government can guarantee that you will be happy. That is up to you to make yourself happy. The revolutionary idea of people having a right to change the government was a new idea. For a thousand years people had lived under the rule of Kings. Kings got their rights to rule from God and not the people, so to say that people had the right to change the government was a revolutionary. Liberty wasn't considered either as something people had. Kings had told them what they could wear, eat, and go. There were no "rights " for people. Today we feel we are born with rights, but when Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence there were no rights. Looking at the document with modern eyes changes it essential meaning and the reasons why it was written. It can't be taken literally.

Answer 3

Alter or abolish the government