That “all Men are created equal” and “endowed by their Creator with Certain unalienable Rights” was selfevident to Americans at the time of the writing of the Declaration of Independence. Why was this? Learn more about the foundations of our selfevident truths.

60Second Civics, Episode 5167: July 3, 2024 (a rebroadcast of Episode 4660: July 5, 2022)

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Content Credits:
Visual 1 & 4 (John Locke and Two Treatise of Government): https://tile.loc.gov/storageservices... // https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/creating...
Visual 2 (Crowd): Photos.com/Canva
visual 3 (Religious scene): https://www.nga.gov/collection/artob...
Visual 5 (Reading the declaration): https://www.nps.gov/waro/learn/histor...