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Declaration of Independence: Inductive and Deductive

Inductive

  • It is necessary for political bands to eventually be dissolved
  • The truths: all men are created equal, that they have the unalienable rights such as Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness
  • Governments are built to secure these unalienable rights

Generalization

When a government does not meet these unalienable rights, it becomes the right of the people to be able to disband and create a new government that will protect these rights

Deductive

Major Premise

The people have the right to alter, abolish, and rebel against a government

Minor Premise

The present King of Great Britain has a history of establishing his tyranny throughout his reign (refused assent to laws, dissolved representative houses, taxation without representation, etc.)

Conclusion

The people of the United States should be able to declare their independence from the tyrannical British