EMERGENCE OF USA
FOUNDATION OF AMERICAN COLONIES
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to protect the interests of the states
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to create a strong national government
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to provide for common defense and promote the general welfare
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to protect citizens’ rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
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Detailed explanation-1: -The purpose of government, Locke wrote, is to secure and protect the God-given inalienable natural rights of the people. For their part, the people must obey the laws of their rulers. Thus, a sort of contract exists between the rulers and the ruled.
Detailed explanation-2: -Its goals were to rally the troops, win foreign allies, and to announce the creation of a new country. The introductory sentence states the Declaration’s main purpose, to explain the colonists’ right to revolution.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Declaration of Independence (1776) built on the American settlers’ common goals of unity, freedom and protection of individual rights. The Declaration’s clarion call to self-government and freedom began the nation.
Detailed explanation-4: -Remember that the pursuit of happiness, in the Declaration, is not a quest or a pastime, but “an unalienable right.” Everyone has the right to actuallybe happy, not just try to be happy. To use a metaphor: You don’t just get the chance to make the baseball team, you are guaranteed a spot.
Detailed explanation-5: -The final draft of the Declaration of Independence contains a preamble, a list of grievances, a formal declaration of independence, and signatures.