The preamble - because it establishes the purpose of the document, the 2nd - because it recognizes the right of the people to defend the rest of it, and the 9th - because it recognizes the impossibility of the document to list all the self evident rights of the people and requires that the citizenry exercise themselves enough to understand the terms "self-evident" and "unalienable" and to defend them.
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