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Why are governments instituted?
Governments instituted among men. This means that people creates the governments and elects the people and laws that govern them.
Who said that to secure these rights governments are instituted among men?
Thomas Jefferson in The Declaration of Independence
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
The phrase in the Declaration of Independence stating "that governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed" illustrates the principle of?
the Social Contract theory
Prudence indeed will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes . . . How does the author appeal to ethos here?
By saying that the declaration’s signers are sensible men who are not taking the change lightly :)
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