What rights did the Declaration of Independence grant its citizens?

Answer 1

1. The power to levy wars.

2. To conclude peace.

3. To contract alliances.

4. To establish commerce.

5. To do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do.

Answer 2

The Declaration of Independence guarantees no rights. The full expression Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence was, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness."

This document, sometimes called one of America's three National Charters, simply declares that Americans were assertingthe Natural Rights that all human beings have and were severing their political ties with their former government. Natural Rights may be thought of variously as "endowed by the Creator," "given to us by God," or "the natural condition of humankind." They all carry the same meaning.

Politically speaking, the most important thing to remember is that Natural Rights are beyond the authority of any government to bestow or revoke. They are different from legal rights that governments do grant and guarantee, such as Miranda rights or voting rights.

Answer 3

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. it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such (an oppressive) government, and to provide new guards for their future security. He has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. In addition to the actual rights stated above, it alludes to others by making complaints about how the King has treated the colonies: "He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them. He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only. He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise; the state remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within. He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands. He has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers. He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance. He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies without the consent of our legislature. He has affected to render the military independent of and superior to civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation: For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: For protecting them, by mock trial, from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states: For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world: For imposing taxes on us without our consent: For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury..." All the above are rights or curtailmant of rights that justify the Declaration of Independence.

Answer 4

You should understand that the Declaration of Independence is not a law enacted by any government, it is a statement issued by a group of revolutionaries; it claims rights, specifically, the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, but it does not grant rights.

Answer 5

Simply put, the Declaration of Independence stated that Americans (at the time, it only applied to white, free land-owning men since slavery was still legal, woman's rights was not established, and the Age of Jackson had not yet occurred) had the right to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."

Answer 6

Life :

The Right of Life means that Man cannot be deprived of his life for the benefit of another man nor of any number of other men.

Liberty :

Freedom, in a political context, means freedom from government coercion. It does not mean freedom from the landlord, or freedom from the employer, or freedom from the laws of nature which do not provide men with automatic prosperity. It means freedom from the coercive power of the state-and nothing else.

Pursuit of Happiness :

The Right to the Pursuit of Happiness means man's right to live for himself, to choose what constitutes his own private, personal, individual happiness and to work for its achievement, so long as he respects the same right in others. It means that Man cannot be forced to devote his life to the happiness of another man nor of any number of other men. It means that the collective cannot decide what is to be the purpose of a man's existence nor prescribe his choice of happiness.
1.Life 2. Liberty 3. Pursuit of happiness choose two

Answer 7

life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness

Answer 8

It granted the citizens their natural rights and helped limit the power of their ruler.

Answer 9

They promised life, liberty and happiness : )people, equality, declaration of independence, right, happiness