Declaration of Independence

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What are unalienable rights?

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Rights you have just because you were born.

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Declaration of Independence

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How are natural rights different from other rights?

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People are born with natural rights.

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What are our natural rights according to Jefferson? (He got the idea from John Locke, but he changed the last right.)

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Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness

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Who was the main author of the Declaration of Independence?

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Thomas Jefferson

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Why is July 4, 1776 an important date in U.S. history?

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The Declaration of Independence is signed.

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Who wrote a pamphlet called "Common Sense"?

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Thomas Paine

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What was the Declaration of Independence all about?

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To proclaim that America's 13 Colonies were no longer part of the British Empire.

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Which word best describes the statement: the people and the government agree to act within laws

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social contract

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John Locke wrote that people have "natural rights". What are natural rights that he described?

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The right to life, liberty and property