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GED Social Studies 1.1 Civics and Government 39794 Views
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GED Social Studies 1.1 Civics and Government
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Sorry And here's your smoke too sure brought to you
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by laws of nature because someone needs to keep those
- 00:09
cheetahs in check I will check out this excerpt from
- 00:13
the declaration of independence when in the course of human
- 00:18
events we hold these truths to be self evident Now
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cool it maybe All right this excerpt is describing what
- 00:28
kind of rights Well so we've got to drop down
- 00:33
here with the options civil divine human and natural We'll
- 00:37
take a closer look at this excerpt and see if
- 00:39
we can figure out what the heck is trying to
- 00:41
say Well a few phrases jump out at us powers
- 00:45
of earth laws of nature and of nature's god all
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men are created equal Well somehow i can't picture a
- 00:53
piece of legislation coming out of today's congress with that
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kind of wording But what does it all mean All
- 00:59
right well are they describing civil rights wealth Martin luther
- 01:02
king had been one of the founding fathers they might
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have been but no the people they're referring to here
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really property owning white protestant men Sort of a narrow
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definitions think well but they certainly weren't concerned with rights
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for all people at this point so it can't be
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civil rights divine rights there's mention of god and the
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creator But divine rights were actually rights given to kings
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back in the middle ages because they supposedly got their
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power straight from the big guy Well not what's being
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described here so that one's out human rights again Women
- 01:35
children minorities volleyball players all humans Last we checked and
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they were far from being on equal footing with white
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protestant men Right Mouths are Answer has to be natural
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rights right which has a major philosophy during the enlightenment
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And it said that men have their rights just because
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they're man Oh man it was like it couldn't hurt 00:01:57.807 --> [endTime] to have a few founding mothers don't you think
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