USA HISTORY

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783

THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE TEXT SIGNERS AND LEGACY

Please wait while the activity loads.
If this activity does not load, try refreshing your browser. Also, this page requires javascript. Please visit using a browser with javascript enabled.

If loading fails, click here to try again

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]

What are the three “unalienable” rights the Declaration of Independence says people have that cannot be taken away?

A	Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
B	Speech, Petition, and Assembly
C	Bearing Arms, Trial by Jury, and Attorney
D	Life, Religion, and Press

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -In the Declaration, “the pursuit of happiness” is listed with the other “unalienable rights” of “life” and “liberty.” Those are qualities of existence, states of being. You are either alive or dead, free or enslaved. Governments have something to say about those states by how they govern their citizens.

Detailed explanation-2: -The unalienable rights that are mentioned in the Declaration of Independence could just as well have been inalienable, which means the same thing. Inalienable or unalienable refers to that which cannot be given away or taken away.

Detailed explanation-3: -Unalienable rights are universal and nontransferable. They are pre-political in the sense that they are not created by persons or society but rather set standards for politics.

There is 1 question to complete.