The Declaration of Independence states that “all Men are … endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights.”

But what does “unalienable Rights”, or as it was intended, “inalienable Rights,” mean? Learn more in this episode!

60Second Civics, Episode 5171: July 9, 2024 (a rebroadcast of Episode 4664: July 11, 2022)

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The show’s theme song is “Complacent” by Cheryl B. Engelhardt. You can find Cheryl online at cbemusic.com.

Content Credits:
Visual 1 & 5 (Statue of Liberty): Aliaksei Skreidzeleu/Canva
Visual 2 (Declaration): The Declaration of Independence Dunlap Broadside, National Park Service/Library of Congress: https://www.nps.gov/articles/dunlap.htm
Visual 3 (Signers of the Declaration): John Trumbull, The Declaration of Independence, Yale University Art Gallery
Visual 4 (Scales): Vladstudioraw, Getty Images/Canva
Visual 6 (Colonial prison ship): Interior of the old Jersey prison ship, in the Revolutionary War, Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/item/00649772/
Visual 7 (Lady Justice): chonesstock/Canva