History

Andres Keller

11 May, 07:48

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.

Why was the above passage included in the declaration of Independence?

A. To identify the improvements made on the Articles of

Confederation

B. To elaborate on the colonists' preference for democracy

C. To explain that forming an independent nation was a last resort

for the colonists

D. To argue that other British subjects should also declare.

themselves independent