The preamble to the Declaration of Independence outlines the principles upon which the new government would be based. Which of these best describes one of those principles?
Which part of the Declaration of Independence acts as an implied plan of action, in that it lists laws and practices to be changed?
Which type of rights did the colonists who drafted the Declaration of Independence most want to protect?
What purpose did the introduction to the Declaration of Independence serve?
Who was appointed to write the Declaration of Independence?
John Locke, an Enlightenment-era philosopher, influenced the American movement for independence. Locke believed that all people were entitled to natural rights. Which quotation from the preamble to the Declaration of Independence refers to natural rights?
Read the quote from Thomas Jefferson.That these are our grievances which we have thus laid before his majesty, with that freedom of language and sentiment which becomes a free people claiming their rights, as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.
In which section of the Declaration of Independence is the purpose of government described?
Which best describes the main action called for by the Declaration of Independence?
Which example describes natural rights?
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