THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
END OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Ignore or support it
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Celebrate and petition
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Alter it and ignore it
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Alter or abolish it
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Detailed explanation-1: -Jefferson writes that when and if an established government fails to protect our natural rights, its only legitimate function, it is the right of the people to abolish it, and establish new government to achieve these ends. These ideas were, and continue to be, nothing short of revolutionary.
Detailed explanation-2: -In the first two paragraphs of that fateful document adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, Jefferson revealed his idea of natural rights in the often-quoted phrases, “all men are created equal, ” “inalienable rights, ” and “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
Detailed explanation-3: -In so doing, Jefferson makes the Declaration’s most famous assertion that “all Men are created equal, ” each possessing the inalienable right to “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.” By 1776 such concepts, derived from British Whigs like John Locke and Algernon Sydney, had become common in the Colonies.