Base your answer to the following on the passage below and on your knowledge of social studies.
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 -
Thomas Jefferson
The purpose of this statement was to