Here are Some Lofty Ideas about Humanity—oh, and also: King George III is the Worst
- This section is all about laying out the basics of what America wants from its government.
- First things first: everyone is born equal, with a bunch of inherent rights. Government was created to protect those rights.
- You might be familiar with the whole, "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" business, right? Those are the biggies here.
- They go on to explain that if the government's failing to do that one thing it's supposed to do, the people definitely have the right to trade it in for a newer, better model. This doesn't happen as often as it should, because people don't like change.
- The Declaration jumps right into it: King George III and his friends have gotten way too tyrannical with the colonies. The people under their rule should—no, must—throw away this government and put something more agreeable in its place.
- To end this section, the authors set up for a list of all the terrible things King George has done.