Describe the meaning of the following passage from the Declaration:

“All men are created equal…they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights…among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to abolish it…”