USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The introductory sentence states the Declaration’s main purpose, to explain the colonists’ right to revolution. In other words, “to declare the causes which impel them to the separation.” Congress had to prove the legitimacy of its cause.

Detailed explanation-2: -What effect does the phrase “self-evident” have in the second sentence? How does that phrase support Jefferson’s position? It emfisizes Jefferson’s belief that independence is possible and with the help of “self-evident” it makes it universal that everyone can have individual rights.