How does the following statement in the Declaration of Independence support the conclusion that America must form its own government?
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same
object evinces [reveals] 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.
A. It appeals to a widely accepted and well-known moral code.
B. It argues that Americans are naturally democratic; their spirit
cannot tolerate tyranny.
C. It creates a list of evils committed by the British under the rule of
King George III.
D. It suggests that Americans are obligated to break from the tyranny
of the king