15) Which excerpt from the Declaration of Independence describes the Enlightenment idea of natural rights?
A)" . . . . all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with ... Life, Liberty and the
pursuit of Happiness."
B) "We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of
our common kindred to disavow these usurpations ...
C)"... whenever any form of Goverment becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People
to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government ..."
D) "He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firrnness his invasions on
the rights of the people."