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Which quote from the Declaration of Independence shows that the colonists were influenced by John Locke's idea of natural rights? (3 points)
A-"A decent respect ... requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."
B-"Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes."
C-"They are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights."
D-"To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world."
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The Volokh Conspiracy
Opinion
What the Declaration of Independence Said and Meant
Opinion by
Randy E. Barnett
Contributor, The Volokh Conspiracy
July 4, 2017 at 6:04 a.m. MST
The Declaration of Independence used to be read aloud at public gatherings every Fourth of July. Today, while all Americans have heard of it, all too few have read more than its second sentence. Yet the Declaration shows the natural rights foundation of the American Revolution, and provides important information about what the founders believed makes a constitution or government legitimate. It also raises the question of how these fundamental rights are reconciled with the idea of “the consent of the governed,” another idea for which the Declaration is famous.
Later, the Declaration also assumed increasing importance in the struggle to abolish slavery. It became a lynchpin of the moral and constitutional arguments of the nineteenth-century abolitionists. It was much relied upon by Abraham Lincoln. It had to be explained away by the Supreme Court in Dred Scott. And eventually it was repudiated by some defenders of slavery in the South because of its inconsistency with that institution.
When reading the Declaration, it is worth keeping in mind two very important facts. The Declaration constituted high treason against the Crown. Every person who signed it would be executed as traitors should they be caught by the Br
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