Since the other answer spoke of the Articles of Confederation, I'll give details about the Declaration of Independence.
The principle of natural rights is reflected in the Declaration of Independence's claims that the American colonists had inalienable rights which were being trampled on by the British government, and thus the colonists were right to assert their independence from Britain.
Explanation/details:
Enlightenment thinkers believed that using reason will guide us to the best ways to operate in order to create the most beneficial conditions for society. For John Locke, one of the earliest of the Enlightenment philosophers, this included a conviction that all human beings have certain natural rights which are to be protected and preserved. Locke's ideal was one that promoted individual freedom and equal rights and opportunity for all. Each individual's well-being (life, health, liberty, possessions) should be served by the way government and society are arranged. The American founding fathers accepted the views of Locke and other Enlightenment thinkers and acted on them.
The Declaration of Independence states Locke's natural rights idea in this way: "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."
John Locke, in his Second Treatise on Civil Government (1690), had expressed those same ideas in these words:
The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions… (and) when his own preservation comes not in competition, ought he, as much as he can, to preserve the rest of mankind, and may not, unless it be to do justice on an offender, take away, or impair the life, or what tends to the preservation of the life, the liberty, health, limb, or goods of another
They included it because it is one big peace in history that was in there time and that they were the ones to sign it. Hope this helped
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Their road system
Explanation:
Inca Trail is the extensive trail system built during the Inca Empire. All the routes of South America directed to Cusco, the main South American metropolis of the pre-Columbian period, legacy of an old cultural tradition.
With that, they could move goods, supplies, and even armies in a much easier way, which helped with the maintenance of their empire.
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The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, or Byzantium, was the continuation of the Roman Empire in its eastern provinces during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinople. It survived the fragmentation and fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD and continued to exist for an additional thousand years until it fell to the Ottoman Empirein 1453.