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In the “Thomas Jefferson, “Original Rough Draught” of the Declaration of Independence (1776)” Jefferson says, “We hold these truths to be sacred & undeniable that all men are created equal & independant, … life, & liberty, & the pursuit of happiness … form of government shall become destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish” (1). The declaration made us equal in the law and, no one should be treated differently. When the colonists were under the control of the English they were stuck in the type of government that told them what to do with out any explanation. After the independence they created the declaration in order to have a government that is managed …show more content…
In the years around 1780 to 1790 the people felt that the government needed to protect the rights of the people and they crated the bill of rights. the book America, Past and present, says “In almost every state convention, opponents of the Constitution pointed to the need for greater protection n of individual liberties, rights that people presum- ably had possessed in a state of nature. “It is necessary,” wrote one Antifederalist, “that the sober and industrious part of the com- munity should be defended from the rapacity and violence of the vicious and idle” (152). The fear of the people was that the government were going to take away their rights and It will be the same thing as when they were under