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What is the government responsible for?
Securing the rights of the governed. "To secure such (inalienable) rights, governments are instituted among men." (Which includes women; a modern rendition would be "among people" or "among humanity".) Or Bins, Funding local parks, Buildings, public transport etc
What document includes the phrase ...to secure these rights Governments are instituted among Men deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed?
The decloration of independance
Why are governments instituted?
Governments instituted among men. This means that people creates the governments and elects the people and laws that govern them.
What is the meaning of freedom in the declaration of independence?
This is perhaps best summarized in the following quote from the Declaration: "We 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. - That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed..."
What sentence from the declaration of independence best develops the idea that representative government is the basis of our constitutional democracy?
That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among the men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
