Select two quotations that best support the answer to Part A. Quotations from any of the three
sources may be used.
A. "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." ("Declaration of Independence," paragraph 2)
B. "He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be
elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have
returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean
time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and
convulsions
within." ("Declaration of Independence," paragraph 8)
C. "Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition, comports with those
warlike
preparations which cover our waters and darken our
land?" ("Speech to the Second Virginia
Convention," paragraph 1)
D. "... I know not what course others may take; but as for me,' cried he, with both
his arms extended aloft, his brows knit, every feature marked with the resolute
purpose of his soul, and his voice
swelled to its boldest note of
exclamation - "give me liberty, or give me death!'" ("Speech to the
Second
Virginia Convention," paragraph 3)
E. "The sentence in which Jefferson made the change didn't make it into the final
document...."
("From Subjects to Citizens," paragraph 3)
F. "This finding reveals an important shift in the Founders' thinking: that the people's
allegiance was to one another, not to a distant king." ("From Subjects to Citizens,"
paragraph 4)