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What opposed the constitution because it did not have a section protecting individual rights?
The Anti-federalists opposed the Constitution because it didn't have a section protecting individual rights.
What are rights that are not explicity listed in the Constitution but are recognized by courts?
Peripheral Rights
Which document granted all of the rights and freedoms listed in the chart?
bill of rights
Of the four major theories of government only this one focuses on protecting the rights of the governed?
Social contract is the only government theory that focuses on protecting the rights of the governed. The other theories of government are divine right, force, and evolutionary.
Why did the signers of the declaration think it was their right as well of their duty to change their country?
According to the Declaration, Governments are created with the consent (permission) of the governed (i.e. their citizens) to secure the "Unalienable rights" such as Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. As such, when a government is actually infringing upon those rights (i.e. violating those rights instead of protecting them), it is the right of the people to abolish (get rid of) it and create a new government. In other words, they believed it was their right because the government could only exist with their consent, which they no longer gave, for the purpose of protecting rights which it infringed upon rather than protecting. They believed it was their duty because they felt that King George was a despot (essentially a tyrant for our purposes) and listed a long list of examples to back this up.
