Read the excerpt and answer the question below. 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 to secure [protect] these rights, governments are instituted [created] among men, deriving [taking] 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 . . based on this excerpt, what is the role of government in society?