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JudyTo secure people's unalienable rights, it declares that the government rules by the consent of the people - that is, it gets its power from the people who had elected them, and the government's power does not come from God, not of any divine origin. If a government does not use its powers for the good of the people, the people have the right to change or remove that government.
It inspired the American colonists to move toward self-rule by declaring independence from a government that denied them representation.
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
It introduced American thinkers to the idea they needed to protect certain god-given privileges the British were denying them-Apex
Which document is best described as a statement of democratic principles rather than a framework for government?
The Declaration of Independence is best described as a statement of democratic principles.
Which statement does not describe a result of the Northwest Ordinance?
The sovereignty of all the states in the union was weakened. Apex
The Declaration of Independence could best be described as a defining statement of American?
The Declaration of Independence could be described in may ways. There is no "best" one.It was a statement of American existenceIt was a statement of American identityIt was, and still is a statement of American hope for the country and for the people.And, of course, it can be described as a statement of American independence - the very reason for the existence of the document.
How did interpretations of the idea that governments divider their power from the consent of the governed change between the writing of the Declaration of Independence and today?
It actually hasn't changed. The Declaration of Independence is statement of Enlightenment philosophy and it tells us the power is derived from the governed. When the people decide that a government no longer serves them they have the right to change the government. This is still done today through free elections. The Declaration of Independence doesn't set law or fix boundaries only the constitution can do that.
Declaration of Independence-?
The Declaration of Independence is the usual name of a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776.
