In what ways does the Constitution contradict the Declaration of Independence? In what ways is it congruent?

What were some effects that the Declaration of Independence had on Human Rights?

• I've read through the Declaration and i have a decent understanding of it, i have a SOSE Seminar assignment where i have to show the effects that the American Revolution and the documents of the Charter of Freedom had on Human Rights. The Constitution and Bill of Rights should be easy enough to handle but my mind is super jumbled at the moment and i cant take in any of what the sites ive been on have said, could someone please give me a few ways that the Declaration has influenced Human rights? Thanks.

• Answer:

  the best answer is to quote the declaration itself: DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE: 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. it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such (an oppressive) government, and to provide new guards for their future security. He has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. In addition to the actual rights stated above, it alludes to others by making complaints about how the King has treated the colonies: "He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them. He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only. He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise; the state remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within. He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands. He has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers. He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance. He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies without the consent of our legislature. He has affected to render the military independent of and superior to civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation: For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: For protecting them, by mock trial, from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states: For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world: For imposing taxes on us without our consent: For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury..." All the above are rights or curtailmant of rights that justify the Declaration of Independence. You must adhere to these qualities in order to consider yourself an understanding person. Study more here: