THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE TEXT SIGNERS AND LEGACY
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People are born with natural rights.
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People can vote to choose natural rights.
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Natural rights are given only to citizens.
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Natural rights come from the government.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Natural rights differ from legal rights in that one is codified in law, whereas the other is regarded as universal and morally granted to all people at birth.
Detailed explanation-2: -He denied the colonists their rights. How do natural rights, as described in the Declaration of Independence, differ from other rights? Because Natural Rights are rights that everyone deserves and that everybody is born with.
Detailed explanation-3: -Natural rights are those that are not dependent on the laws or customs of any particular culture or government, and so are universal, fundamental and inalienable (they cannot be repealed by human laws, though one can forfeit their enjoyment through one’s actions, such as by violating someone else’s rights).
Detailed explanation-4: -When the authors of the U.S. Declaration of Independence spoke of all people being endowed with “unalienable Rights, ” such as “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness, ” they were confirming their belief in the existence of “natural rights.”