EMERGENCE OF USA
FOUNDATION OF AMERICAN COLONIES
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Question
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The Declaration explained that all people had certain unalienable rights:life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.Who did the Colonist borrow the main points of this idea from?
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John Locke
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Baron de Montesquei
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Thomas Paine
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King George
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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: -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.
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