In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson wrote that all people have certain unalienable rights that can’t be taken away. These rights include the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. One of the main jobs of the government is to protect the rights of the citizens.
Thomas Jefferson stated that when the government fails to protect the rights of the people, the people have no option but to replace that government with one that will protect their rights. In the Declaration of Independence, there is a long list of grievances that the colonists had against the King of England. This list included examples of how the King of England abused the rights of the colonists. For example, the British taxed the colonists without allowing the colonists to have representatives in Parliament that could vote for the proposed taxes. As a result, Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence that the colonists had to rebel against the British government in order to establish a new government that would protect the rights of the people.
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