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