Final answer:
The Declaration of Independence outlines the rights and principles that the American founders deemed necessary in a just government.
Step-by-step explanation:
1. Rights: Colonists who supported independence believed that people already had these rights.
2. Liberty: Some experts believe Jefferson thought about this when he wrote "all men are created equal" in the Declaration of Independence.
3. Unalienable: Enslaved people and married women did not have this in the United States during the time of the Declaration of Independence.
4. Governing: Cannot be transferred to or taken away from.
5. Creator: To be given.
6. Endowed: There is no single definite answer about what the delegates intended by this word.