Use the excerpt below to answer the question.


That the inhabitants of the English colonies in North-America, by the immutable laws of nature, the principles of the English constitution, and the several charters or compacts, have the following RIGHTS:

. . . That they are entitled to life, liberty and property: and they have never ceded to any foreign power whatever, a right to dispose of either without their consent.

—Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress, 1774


In the Declaration of Independence, one of the rights listed in this excerpt was replaced with which of the following as an unalienable right?

Group of answer choices

rule by democracy

expression of ideas

pursuit of happiness

freedom to worship