What are two rights in the Declaration of Independence?

Why this is the answer

This question asks for two, so a single right is not a complete answer. The three on the official list are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and any two of them will do. All three come from one famous sentence in the Declaration's second paragraph. It says that all men are created equal and are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, and that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Unalienable means no government can take them away. The words "among these" are worth noticing too: they signal that the three are examples, not a complete list. The same passage then explains why the rights matter for a government. Governments are created to secure these rights, it says, and they draw their just powers from the consent of the governed. When a government works against those ends, the people have the right to change it or abolish it. USCIS sums up the reasoning: people are born with natural rights, government exists to protect them, and since people gave power to the government voluntarily, they can take it back. The British government had stopped protecting the colonists' rights, so the colonies took their power back and separated. In other words, these three rights are the justification for independence itself. The usual mistake is to answer with rights from the Bill of Rights, such as freedom of speech or religion. Those are real rights, but they come from the First Amendment, ratified in 1791, not from the Declaration of 1776. Equality trips people up as well: "all men are created equal" is in the same sentence, yet it is not one of the answers listed for this question, and USCIS encourages applicants to use the listed answers. Jefferson's phrase is short enough to learn as a unit, and once you can say all of it, picking two is easy. "Life and liberty" is the shortest safe reply.