Question 13 of 20 Read the following excerpt from the Declaration of Independence:
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing
invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce [a
people] 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 history of the present King of
Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and
usurpations
How do the authors of the Declaration best use deductive reasoning based on
the idea that the colonists have a right to form a new government?
A. They first establish the idea that oppressed people have a right
and duty to replace their government with a better one, and then
argue that British rule of the colonies is one such exfloynple.
B. They provide universally