The Declaration of Independence

The Declaration of Independence lays out a specific argument for why a government can lose its right to rule: it states that people have natural rights, like life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, that no government granted and no government can fairly take away, that governments only have authority because the people they govern consent to be ruled, and that a government which persistently violates people's rights can rightfully be changed or abolished by those people. This argument, more than the historical fact that America separated from Great Britain, is what later shaped how Americans think about the legitimate limits of government power.

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