The correct answer to this open question is the following.
Unfortunately, you forgot to attach the portion of the Declaration of Independence that we have to read. Without it, we do not have the proper information to help you out.
However, trying to help you we did some deep research and found the following excerpt.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator withcertain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. – That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed..."
So with this excerpt, we can say the following.
The statement that best summarizes this excerpt of the Declaration of Independence is "People have certain rights and it is the role of government to protect those rights."
That was one of the most important issues Thomas Jefferson had in mind when he drafted the Declaration of Independence.
The Declaration of Independence was promulgated on July 4, 1776 in the city of Philadephia, Pennsylvania, and was the result of the work of a special group of prominent Americans who drafted the Declaration. They were Thomas Jefferson, Robert Livingston, Roger Sherman, John Adams, and Benjamin Franklin.
