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Compare Thomas Jefferson's Four Assertions

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At the beginning of the preamble, Thomas Jefferson makes four assertions, four rights the people have and cannot be argued about. Two of the four assertions made include, “all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights” (168). These two statements Jefferson makes point out that all people are equal under god, and that those same people are born with certain rights which include Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of happiness. The last two claims Jefferson suggest that the government “derives their just powers from the consent of the governed” and that if the people feel threatened by the government they can “alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government” (168). Through these last two comments,
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