The Statement of Beliefs are a series of beliefs that the colonists believed in. These included: religion, governmental ideas, and some rights. The Declaration of Independence stated that Man should form the government, and it should be formed by the consent of the governed. So it simply means that the government is for the people, and run by the people. This simple thought is how we run our government now, so obviously it worked. Also it says that if the government becomes corrupt, that it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it. The people can change the government for the needs at hand, or simply destroy it, resulting in a state of anarchy, or as John Locke thought of, a state of nature. Throughout most all of the Declaration
