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Misleading question, as all Americans have the right to Life, Liberty and the persuit of happiness, these rights can be taken away (you become inprisioned, thus loose any or all of these rights) once you encroach on anothers right to persue the same, i.e. you no longer have the right for persuit of happiness if you take away anothers right to life.
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BeauYou have 3 inalienable rights outlined by the Second Treatise Concerning Civil Government, by John Locke, and re-iterated in the Declaration of Independence (of the US from Britain) though slightly different. These can and often are taken away by various means, but they aren't alterable, or disputed as factual rights "endowed by their Creator" - in the words of the latter document.
They are "Life, Liberty and Property (or Pursuit of Happiness as written in the US document).
**The change from "property" to "pursuit of happiness", was probably to prevent a general uprising of non-land holding citizens demanding their rightful due (property). Though in general terms they are similar in meaning.
The Declaration of the Rights of Man by the French National Assembly in 1789 (revolution) changed the words to " liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression." eliminating a right to life.
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What is the word that means rights that cannot be taken away by people or government?
The word used, as an example, in the Declaration of Independence is: Unalienable.
Was all rights can be taken away in the declaration of independence?
No
The declaration of independence says all men are created equal endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights what does this mean?
All men have rights that cannot be taken away
When the declaration of independence says that unalienable rights are endowed by their creator it means those rights are what?
They are rights that cannot be taken away by anyone, including the government, and those rights are "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness".
What was the first part of the declaration of independence about?
The first of the constitution was called the preamble and was about the purpose of the constitution, the philosiphy of it, and was our founding fathers expected of the U.S. to be in the present and the future.
