The Declaration of Independence was written to state the reasons why the colonists wanted independence. Jefferson wrote that all men are created equal with certain unalienable rights. The colonists were deprived of these basic unalienable rights by their tyrant government. To protect our rights, Jefferson and others organized a democratic government in which there was rule by the people. Thus, we have basic rights given to us by the government, but do the people have …showed first 75 words of 325 total…

…showed last 75 words of 325 total…basic right for the safety of its citizens. As citizens of the U.S. we have experienced times where we have been violated of our basic rights. The government should have that right to take away our basic rights as long as it is helping the country as a whole. In short, we the people really don't have basic rights given to us. Rather, they are rights that we consider to be our basic rights.