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Read the excerpt from the Preamble to the Declaration of Independence.

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. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

According to the Preamble, what is one job of the government?

to ensure happiness
to protect individual rights
to create unalienable rights
to rule without any interference

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Answer:

To protect individual rights

Explanation:

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are all rights that every individual has, and according to the Preamble "[Men] derive their just powers from the consent of the governed," meaning it's the government's responsibility to protect and ensure those rights.

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Answer:

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

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