Declaration of Independence

1. How are the core values of American democracy incorporated into the Declaration?
-- they are stated, then explained.
2. Throughout these core values, the relationship between citizen and government is described. What responsibilities does the government have to honoring these core values? What responsibilities do individual citizens have to preserve these core values?
a) they are to secure those rights.
b) if the government fails, then we have the right to abolish or alter it
3. How might some or all of these core values be important to the preservation of a free and independent press?
--freedom of speech: if we didnt have this, we couldnt print NP's like we want to.lol

4. Identify the core values of American constitutional democracy that allow private citizens to collect, edit and further distribute information to others and how the values help drive these actions.
--we are a diverse nation therefore we arent set on one type of race or opinion.
5. What responsibilities do producers of information have to these core values and their fellow citizens when distributing information?
--"...we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor."