This is an essay I really need help on.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable.

How does this excerpt from the declaration of independence connect to the ideals upon which the U.S. government was founded?

If you can just give some links to stir me in the right direction that's fine but please do try to help be giving some examples.

need help

You will find articles here on the influences of the Enlightenment and concepts of "natural law" on the writing of the Declaration:

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&aq=&oq=enlightenment+and+natural+law+influences+on+the+declaration+of+independence&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4VRHB_enUS648US649&q=enlightenment+and+natural+law+influences+on+the+declaration+of+independence&gs_l=hp....0.0.6.122446...........0.XKNOxtgISz0

thank you reed and ms. sue I don't plagiarize from any site but this one

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.

Ok how does this sound (I DID NOT PLAGARIZE)

That is a quotation from the Declaration, NOT an explanation of the influences upon this idea.

And plagiarizing from ANY site is cheating and it is wrong. Period!

ok I give up no matter what I do I can't do my essay's right I'm accused of plagiarism and if that isn't enough my dads going in for open heart surgery and has to have his spleen takin out has cancer and I'd rather not say any more.

Ye Gads! Do you think we don't recognize the Declaration of Independence?

http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/

Bye!

Yikes!!!! Someone ***Ahem Hem*** is MAD!

***Ahem Hem*** Ms .Sue!

that's not even the right test