EMERGENCE OF USA
FOUNDATION OF AMERICAN COLONIES
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Declaration of Independence
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Dictatorship
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Absolute Monarchy
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Totalitarianism
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Detailed explanation-1: -Form small groups to discuss the meaning of the three natural rights that Jefferson identified in the Declaration of Independence: “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness."
Detailed explanation-2: -The concept of natural rights occupies an important place in American political thought as reflected in the Declaration of Independence.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -In the United States Declaration of Independence, the natural rights mentioned are “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness". The idea was also found in the Declaration of the Rights of Man. Locke, Jefferson, and others think that the purpose of government is to protect peoples’ natural rights.