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The founders of the US believed that an important purpose of government was to protect whose rights?
the individuals
Of the four major theories of government only this one focuses on protecting the rights of the governed?
Social contract is the only government theory that focuses on protecting the rights of the governed. The other theories of government are divine right, force, and evolutionary.
Why does the constitution protect some rights but not others?
The list of rights protected in the Constitution were those rights that the Founders believed would be most likely for a tyrannical government to infringe upon. There were also rights that were not protected because they come in direct conflict with other rights. For example, the Right of Reputation and the Right to Free Speech come into conflict since negative speech could harm reputation; but the Founders believed that Free Speech was more important that the Right of Reputation. There were also rights that the Founders did not believe should be given, but that later generations thought were worth protecting, such as the Right to be a Free Man.
What was the basic belief of the Declaration of Independence?
That man has the natural rights given by God and that when the government no longer protects these rights that the people have the right to change the government. He then lists the reason/charges against the King to back up that the king is no longer protecting these rights. The basic message and belief is that the people of the 13 colonies should be free from British rule.
The job of protecting the rights listed in the bill of rights belongs mainly to who?
the job of protecting the rights is the congress
