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.
<span>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.}) </span>
