Read the excerpts from historical documents.

how are these excerpts similar?

both offer complaints.

both recall history.

both state demands.

both admit defeat.

from the declaration of independence:

we solemnly publish and declare, that these united

colonies are, and of right ought to be free and

independent states; that they are absolved from all

allegiance to the british crown, and that all political

connection between them and the state of great britain, is

and ought to be totally dissolved

from the declaration of sentiments:

we insist that they have immediate admission to all the

rights and privileges which belong to them as citizens of

the united states