Question

SE English Language Arts 12_S1_2020

Identifying an Author's Purpose
Based on the passage, what is the purpose of the
Declaration of Independence?
to provide a set of rules and regulations for the
United States
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
--The Declaration of Independence,
Thomas Jefferson
to justify the American colonists' desire for freedom
from British rule
to establish new settlements and colonies in
America
to encourage England to become a democracy
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Answer 1

Answer: to justify the American colonists' desire for freedom

Explanation: The Declaration of Independence did not set up the American government in any way, so any option that mentions anything like that is automatically wrong. Also, the Declaration of Independence was not ordering England to do anything regarding their government, so that option is wrong as well.