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Read the excerpt from the Declaration of Independence. Which three of the highlighted sections
include Enlightenment ideas that reflect American democratic values?
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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed
by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the
pursuit of Happiness -- That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men
deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed --That whenever any form of
Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the People to alter or to abolish
it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its
powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light
and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more
disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to
which they are accustomed.
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