9. What are two rights in the Declaration of Independence?
Answer:
• Life
• Liberty
• Pursuit of happiness
Explanation:
The phrase “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” comes from the Declaration of Independence
and it is something Americans talk a lot about.
These words were written by Thomas Jefferson.
He and the other men who wrote the Constitution believed that these are unalienable rights,
that people are born with and that a government should not be given the power to take them away.
These words have become synonymous
with (or have the same meaning as) the “American spirit” (or the way that Americans think and feel).
In the United States, the right to life is considered the most basic of all rights.
It’s exactly what it sounds like: the right to be alive.
It may seem funny that the men who wrote the Declaration of Independence included life as a right,
but many of the earliest Americans had come from countries that did not take this right seriously.
In many of these countries, governments executed (or killed) their own citizens.
This is why the men who wrote the Declaration of Independence included the right to life.
The second of Jefferson’s rights is the right to liberty (or freedom).