The Declaration Of Dependance

Reasons That Led To The Signing

• not allowed to settle past mountains
• taxes
• took their freedom away
• soldiers could settle in their houses without permission

Why Was It Written And What Important Information Does It Contain

• It was written because they felt that they had the rights to declare
• independence from Britain
• And it contains certain information like Preamble, Grievance, and
• Formal Declaration

Natural Rights

• natural rights is the rights you have when your born
• such as it says in the Declaration of Independence 
• "THAT ALL MEN ARE EQUAL, THAT THEY ARE ENDOWED BY THEIR CREATOR...
• ...WITH CERTAIN UNALIENABLE RIGHTS, THAT AMONG THESE ARE...
• ...LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS"

popular sovereignty

• popular sovereignty is when the government gets power from the people
• And the people consent to be govern
• it also state this in the declaration of independence "that to secure...
• ...these rights, Governments are instituted among Men , deriving their just powers from
• ...the consent of the governed,"

Social Contract

• the concept of social contract is that is the goverment fails
• the people can over throw the government
• it states this in the declaration of independence "it is the right to
• alter or abolish it

opinion

• do you think we still hold up most of these basic principles
• yes for the most part except for popular sovereignty...
• because in most of pieces of American history we had moments that...
• we could over throw the goverment like with Luther King but our goverment..
• refused to when we had the right to over throw them

opinion 2

• would you have signed the declaration of independents
• yes i would to prove that i would be on of the first Americans to revolt 
• against Great Britain and be remembered in American history or in general
• just history