Which groups of people were excluded from the principles of unalienable rights in the Declaration of Independence? Select all that apply.

The Declaration’s language of unalienable rights was not applied equally in practice. Women, enslaved African Americans, and Indigenous peoples were excluded from the rights and political equality it proclaimed. White men were generally treated as the intended beneficiaries, while immigrants to the colonies were not categorically excluded on that basis alone.

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