Analyzing the Declaration of IndependenceDirections: Highlight examples of ideals of democracy as follows:●Limited Government●Social Contract●Natural Rights●Popular Sovereignty●Republicanism●EqualityIN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,When bands separate in which the and Course equal have of connected station human to events, which themwith the it becomes Laws another, of necessary Nature and to assume and for of one Nature's among people theGod to powers dissolve entitle of them, the the political earth, a decent the respect to the opinions of mankindrequires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creatorwith certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to securethese rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of thegoverned, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of thePeople to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles andorganizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transientcauses; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils aresufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a longtrain of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them underabsolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guardsfor their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessitywhich constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of GreatBritain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of anabsolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
