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Taigawe hold these truths to be self-evident, 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.
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Which passage from the Declaration of Independence most clearly reflects the enlightenment principle of addressing a broken social contract?
That whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the people to alter or to abolish it.-Apex
The Declaration of Independence clearly reflects the ideas of?
The Declaration of Independence is a document based on the beliefs of the founding fathers and was mostly written by Thomas Jefferson. Enlightenment? At that time, the colonists were pretty fed up with taxation without representation, had been influenced by the writings of Thomas Paine...in particular "Common Sense"....and were already involved in the American Revolutionary War. If you mean enlightenment ideas of one person in particular, the main man was definitely Thomas Jefferson....Virginia gentleman.
How did enlightenment ideas develop in the American colonies and how were they reflected in the declaration of independence and the constitution?
When Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence he used the thoughts of John Locke. These were revolutionary ideas to state that people had the right to pick their government. For a thousand years kings had ruled the world and everyone in it. To write that a person had natural rights was treason as far as monarchs were concerned.
Which phrase from the declaration of Independence most clearly reflects the idea that the people are the source of government?
The consent of the governed is an idea born of the enlightenment and the writings of John Locke. This is the idea that a government gains its power via the willingness of the people to support it. The US system expresses this notion by holding elections in which the people (the governed) select their representatives to govern (there by giving consent).
Which statement from the Declaration of Independence1 best reflects the Enlightenment idea of popular sovereignty?
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
