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Declaration Of Independence

Published on Nov 19, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

Declaration Of Independence

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Why did they want freedom?

  • So they can not pay taxes
  • So they can go on the other side of the Appalachian Mountain
  • To trade with other countries 

Structure

  • preamble
  • grievance
  • formal declaration
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Natural Rights

The rights you get when your are simply born
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Popular Sovereignty

when people agree to be governed
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Social Contract

The right to overthrow the government
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Quotes

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Quote 1 Natural Rights

  • We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,
  • they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that
  • among these are Life,Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

Quote 2 Popular Sovereignty

  • "That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among men,deriving
  • their  just powers from the consent of the governed."

Quote 3 Social Contract

  • That whenever any Form of of Government becomes destructive of these  ends,
  • it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute
  • new Government "