POLI 2051 Chapter : Chapter 2 Text Book Notes
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Jefferson"s argument that legitimate government can be established only by the people, is created to protect inalienable rights, and can govern only with their consent. Human beings possess rights that cannot be legitimately given away or taken from them. 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 consent of the governed . That whenever any form 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 laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and.
