USA HISTORY

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783

THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE TEXT SIGNERS AND LEGACY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
In the Declaration of Independence Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness are known as
A
Unalienable Rights
B
Grievances
C
Laws
D
Taxation
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -"Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” is a well-known phrase from the United States Declaration of Independence. The phrase gives three examples of the unalienable rights which the Declaration says have been given to all humans by their Creator, and which governments are created to protect.

Detailed explanation-2: -They include the right to a clean and healthful environment and the rights of pursuing life’s basic necessities, enjoying and defending their lives and liberties, acquiring, possessing and protecting property, and seeking their safety, health and happiness in all lawful ways.

Detailed explanation-3: -Thomas Jefferson took the phrase “pursuit of happiness” from Locke and incorporated it into his famous statement of a peoples’ inalienable right to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” in the Declaration of Independence.

Detailed explanation-4: -They are (in order) freedom of religion, speech, press, the right to “peaceably” assemble, and the right to “petition the government for a redress of grievances. ‘’ All five freedoms were disrupted in some way during and after the lockdowns, protests, and campaigning following the 2020 pandemic.

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