Essay On The English Declaration Of Rights

Several rights were promised in the Declaration of Independence, including the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and the right to a representative government. These natural rights connect to one another in different ways. The right to life meant that all humans had a right to live and not to be held under the subjugation of others. The right of liberty meant that all men were entitled to be free which works into the right of life. The right to pursue happiness meant that all people had the right to live life as they pleased, as long as it did not harm others or was illegal. The right to a representative government meant that all men had the right to be represented in government business and that they would be taken into account when laws or taxes were created.

“Life, Liberty, & Pursuit of happiness,” is one of the most important parts of the declaration. That means that citizens have the right to all those things. It is a natural right. The words of the Declaration of Independence mean the right freedom, justice, equality, security, protection, and fair government. I think the two most important words are Rights and equality.

The Declaration of Independence, if you live in america then you know what that is. In the declaration of independence is the bill of rights. These ten rights make america what it is today. People have so much freedom but so little at the same time.

The historic development of rights is associated with the development of western philosophical ideas and political principles. The recognition of man as a moral entity with self-worth and human dignity are ideas rediscovered in the Age of Enlightenment, most famously by the philosopher Immanuel Kant, ideas which challenged the authority of institutions deep rooted into society like the church and state. Although pre-Enlightenment, Britain already had a set of codified rights laid out in documents like the ‘Magna Carta of 1215’ or ‘The Bill of Rights of 1968’ . The rights contained in both documents were not human rights but rather political settlements between the monarch and property owning men. It was therefore until 1789, with the creation of the ‘Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen in France’, and the ‘Bill of Rights of the United States Constitution’, that had there been an article which laid out a formal

Rights are very important to our society. When rights are taken, people doubt themselves and don’t have a need to show their opinion. There's still a struggle with freedom today. The most common rights that are being taken are freedom of speech, , freedom to assemble, and freedom of religion and right of privacy. The government is taking our privacy This right is supposed to be essential. Some companies are using personal data. The declaration of rights is being violated and the government is letting it happen. They don’t seem to be doing anything about stopping it in North Carolina and with my movement hopefully, this will stop.

The situation in France prior to the revolution cried out for redress of the wrongs and inequalities inflicted on the working class. While the king, the nobility and the church enjoyed great privilege, the peasants struggled to survive. Only the poor paid taxes. Hunger and poverty was rampant. The National Assembly, which formed in response to the failure of the monarchy to do anything about the dire situation, enacted some changes. All of this was put forward in A Declaration of Man and Rights of Citizens which was proclaimed by the National Assembly and was applied to all citizens. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen came to be, as was recognized by the 19th-century historian, Jules Michelet, “the credo of the new age”. The rights to "liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression"

Throughout the document, the American Declaration of Independence cites specific indications of past faults of government which exposes the tyrannical leadership they were under. In a lengthy chunk of the document, the authors of this document explain the detrimental faults of their government’s (England’s rule, specifically King George) lack of care to its people while in turn, vindicating their separation of English rule and the rights people deserve. The “list of grievances” include how the government kept active soldiers during times of peace and imposing taxes without the people’s consent which later is fixed into rights for the American people. Anaphora exemplifies these arguments by focusing and seemingly listing the grievances to the audience for a greater comprehension of the emotionally heavy content. In similar fashion, the English Declaration of Rights and the Declaration of Sentiments display their grievances in lengthy and repetitive way, yet they do not fit exactly to their cause. The English Declaration of Rights constantly list their complaints about their government which loses focus in its extensive length (in about 5 sections). The Declaration of Sentiments format is close to the American Declaration of Independence, nevertheless it also constantly lists its wide-spread criticisms that can be better explained through an illustrative and testimonial-like style. Thus, the American Declaration of Independence cites their evidence in a fitting manner that is more concurrent and enticing (from its sentence structure and length) than the other documents to establish its message.

"The Bill of Rights was created by our forefathers to attempt to protect basic rights of the American Citizens. With the Introduction of the Internet and mass surveillance revealed by whistle-blowers such as Edward Snowden, those very same Citizens are having their rights infringed upon by the government that has been set up to protect our rights, those laid down in the Bill of Rights.

After reviewing The Declaration of Independence and the Preamble of the United States Constitution I’ve found that the term unalienable right, amongst others, means a lot to me and for a lot of people in a lot of different ways. I also found that the U.S. Constitution does so many different things to protect these God given rights through many different examples and processes.

“ The government is morally obligated to serve people and protect their rights such as life, liberty, and property. The Constitution was created to make a stronger central government to protect the rights of its people. The Social Contract protects the natural rights of the citizens, but with the Constitution protecting every other rights. The writers intention of the Bill of Rights was to ensure the safety of citizens rights. Most amendments apply in daily life, but might not realize it. The First amendment, freedom of speech, amendment two, the right to bear arms, and amendment four, protects citizens from unreasonable searches and seizures. These three amendments are a major factor in daily lives for citizens.

The three primary dissenters to the human rights tradition as put forth by the likes of John Locke, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Paine and Immanuel Kant all based their criticisms of the tradition in some way on questioning the foundations of the claims for human rights. All of the three – Edmund Burke, Jeremy Bentham and Karl Marx – land on a conclusion that the human rights tradition has too heavy a dependence upon individuals, whether through an overdependence on their ability to reason in the case of Burke or through an overdependence on protecting and benefitting individuals in the cases of Bentham and Marx.

that everyone is equal and should be treated the same. Not one person is better than another, and

This agreement was written in English, to the extent any translated version of this agreement conflicts with the English version, the English version controls.

According to the Universal Declaration of Human rights there are rights that apply to all human beings: such as a right to life, liberty and security of person, the right to protection against discrimination, and the right to public service and medical care (General Assembly Resolution 217A). Article 25 specifically states:

We as a nation, have had numerous first-hand experiences with terrorism and violence. Because of the experience and pain we were put through as a nation, many may not think twice about being subjected to government surveillance. Our security from future terrorist attacks is important, but not as important as our privacy. People shouldn’t be so quick to give up their rights to have privacy in order to allow the government to monitor national security. Giving the government the power to invade our privacy makes it easy for them to violate their power and strip citizens of their constitutional rights. Some people will argue that the price one has to pay for safety is his rights to privacy being taken away. As Benjamin Franklin once said, “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety” (Independence Hall Association). In other words, those who are willing to give up their privacy for security, deserve neither. We the people, are those who make up this nation, and we surely should not allow the government to invade our privacy or void our 4th amendment right.