Are Endowed with Rights?
We Hold These Truths to Be Self-Evident, That All Men Are Created Equal, That They Are Endowed by Their Creator with Certain Unalienable Rights, That Among...
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the ...
What does it mean when it says you are endowed with these Rights?
"Unalienable" means non-transferable: people can't surrender these rights, even voluntarily. ... No one is born with a right to sell himself into slavery, or to authorize another person to kill him.
Who endowed the colonists with unalienable Rights?
The Declaration of Independence quoted above was written because the government of England led by King George III believed that the government had the right to take these rights away. In the colonial charters the citizens of the American colonies had been granted the "rights of Englishmen" .
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