Question

What is the central argument presented in the declaration of independence

Answer 1

The main argument of the Declaration of Independence is that the people of a land have rights and freedoms that should not be ignored by governments or rulers, and that if these "unalienable rights" are ignored, the people have the right to form a society of their own. In the case of the American colonists, they had decided that they were no longer willing to be subjects of the British king.

Answer 2

Main ideas: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness... It focused on the idea that all men have certain "unalienable" rights, and that the king had taken away these rights from the colonists. also, they listed complaints that the colonists had about the king (all the unfair things that he did {taxes, quartering of british soldiers, etc.})