Author’s Methods: Which statement below is a claim that Jefferson makes about governments?
"For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States"
"He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power."
"That to secure these rights (life, liberty, pursuit of happiness), Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed."
"We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends."