Unit 4 Review packet:
Government in the Western Hemisphere
Founding Documents of a Constitutional Democracy
owing to describe each document.
➤ Approved on July 4th.
➤ Format:
JOGIER 310
> Perspective represented:
13 calines
1776
that outlined a long list
of grievances and suggested the colonies be an
nation.
➤ Asserted its independence from Great Britan
Main ideas of the document:
o Equality: God made all men,
gave them the rights to
and the pursuit of
o Natural (unalienable) rights: the main business of
government is to
people's rights.
o Government's responsibility: if a government tries to
withhold these rights, the people are free to revolt
and to set up a new
The Declaration of Independence begins with the words: We
hold these
to be
and
that all men are
created
> The introductory statement is called a prek