High School Reading Grades 11 12 Quiz
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The following is an excerpt from an original document written in the style of a late-eighteenth-century American political address.
When a free people, having long endured the encroachments of a distant authority, resolve at last to alter the frame of their government, it becomes them to declare, with plainness and with candor, the causes which have impelled them to so grave a course. For governments, being instituted for the security of the governed, derive their just powers not from the antiquity of their forms nor from the pretensions of their magistrates, but from the deliberate consent of those whom they are meant to serve. Whenever, therefore, any government shall so far forget its proper office as to become the instrument of oppression rather than the guardian of liberty, it is not only the right, but the sacred duty, of the people to withdraw their allegiance and to institute such new safeguards as shall seem most conducive to their happiness and repose.
We do not undertake this act in the heat of momentary passion, nor from any love of tumult, nor from a light regard for the settled order of civil society. We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have appealed to the sentiments of justice in those who ought to have heard us. Our supplications have been answered with contempt, our grievances met with fresh injuries. What recourse, then, remains to a people so treated, save that which nature and reason equally commend?
The author's decision to catalog the people's prior appeals—petitions, remonstrances, and appeals to justice—most directly serves which rhetorical purpose?
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