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THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

Reading Check

Directions: Read over the questions below and think about the Declaration of Independence. Then answer each question in one or two sentences.

1. What is the purpose of the preamble? The purpose of the preamble was to talk about how throughout histoy, seperation between country and colony is necessary for both to succeed and excel. 2. According to Jefferson, when do people have the right to alter or abolish a government? The people have the right to alter or abolish the government when the govnment goes against what the people want. 3. According to Jefferson, what, in general, do the colonists object to about the way laws are made and enforced in the colonies? “He neglects to attend to them and he deprives them trial by jury.” He doesn't pass the laws they need most and are most necessary for public good.

4. According to Jefferson, what have the colonists done repeatedly each time they felt that they had been wronged? They repeatedly petitioned, alothough their petitions were "anwered only by repeated injury"

5. What does the last part of the document say about the colonies’ relationship with Great Britain? The last part says the colonies' political connection with Great Britain is dissolved and that the colonies are independent from Great Britain.