Can someone explain this quote to me i need it for my midterm?

Question

“The Constitution was written to affirm and establish the ideals laid out in the Declaration of Independence – life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

Answer 1

The Declaration of Independence was an act of the Second Continental Congress, adopted on July 4, 1776, which declared that the "Thirteen United Colonies" were now independent states and formed a new nation, the "United States of America." They no longer owed allegiance to Great Britain. The Declaration, written chiefly by Thomas Jefferson, explained the justifications for breaking away, and was an expansion of the July 2 Lee Resolution, which first proclaimed independence. An engrossed copy was signed by the delegates on August 2 and is now on display in the National Archives in Washington, D.C. July 4th is celebrated as the nation's birthday.

PREAMBLE
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable Rights, that 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 of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

Answer 2

The Constitution was solely written to hold true and to affirm the ideas laid out in the Declaration of not only life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness but of everything else mentioned. For instance like the Bible is to the Creed. The Constitution holds up the Declaration- it's like its foundation (the Constitution is to the Declaration). The Constitution gives the Declaration substance/backbone. It shows that the Declaration wasn't just created out of thin air.

Answer 3

What is to explain? It is pretty direct.

The Constitution was created using the principles paid out in the Declaration of Independent and does not conflict with it.

Answer 4

I dont know who cares