SE English Language Arts 12_S1_2020

Identifying an Author's Purpose

Based on the passage, what is the purpose of the

Declaration of Independence?

to provide a set of rules and regulations for the

United States

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.--Such has

been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is

now the necessity which constrains them to alter their

former Systems of Government

--The Declaration of Independence,

Thomas Jefferson

to justify the American colonists' desire for freedom

from British rule

to establish new settlements and colonies in

America

to encourage England to become a democracy

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Lorelai Bartlett

5 March, 05:33

SE English Language Arts 12_S1_2020

Identifying an Author's Purpose

Based on the passage, what is the purpose of the

Declaration of Independence?

to provide a set of rules and regulations for the

United States

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.--Such has

been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is

now the necessity which constrains them to alter their

former Systems of Government

--The Declaration of Independence,

Thomas Jefferson

to justify the American colonists' desire for freedom

from British rule

to establish new settlements and colonies in

America

to encourage England to become a democracy

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Queen Bee · Answer 1

Answer: to justify the American colonists' desire for freedom

Explanation: The Declaration of Independence did not set up the American government in any way, so any option that mentions anything like that is automatically wrong. Also, the Declaration of Independence was not ordering England to do anything regarding their government, so that option is wrong as well.