Declaration of Independence

Paragraph 1:

a. What may it become necessary for people to dissolve?

b. What kind of a station may it become necessary for them to assume?

c. What laws entitle them to that station?

d. What does decent respect require them to do?

Paragraph 2:

a. What are all men created to be?

b. What has their Creator endowed them with?

c. What are 3 of those rights?

d. Why are governments created among men?

e. Who do they derive their powers from?

f. When do the people have a right to alter or abolish their government?

g. What should they institute?

h. What should its principles and powers be made to effect?

i. What kind of causes should long established governments not be changed for?

j. What are mankind more disposed to do than to abolish governments?

k. What is their right and duty to do if the government is repeatedly abusing and reducing them?

l. Why should they provide new guards?

m. What was the King of Great Britain trying to establish?

Paragraph 3:

a. What has he refused his assent to?

b. Who has he forbidden to pass important and pressing laws?

c. What did he want the people to relinquish?

d. What kind of places has he called together legislative bodies?

Why?

e. What has he repeatedly dissolved?

Why? (what had they opposed)

f. What has he refused others to be?

g. What have the Legislative powers incapable of?

h. What was the state in danger of from without?                   From within?

i. What did he try to prevent?

j. What did he obstruct?

h. What did he make the judges dependent on?

i. What did he erect?

j. Why did he send swarms of Officers?

k. What did he keep among them even in times of peace?

l. What did he make the Military independent and superior to?

m. What did he combine with others to do?

n. What did he protect them from?

o. What did he cut off?

p. What did he impose on them without their consent?

q. What benefit did he often deprive them of?

r. What were they tried for?

s. What did he abolish in a neighboring Province?

t. What kind of a government did he establish there?

u. What did he take away?                Abolish?                         Alter?

v. What did he suspend?

w. What did he wage against them?

x. What did he plunder?             Ravage?                 Burn?                    Destroy?

y. Why did he transport large armies of foreign Mercenaries?

z. Who did he constrain to bear arms against their country?

aa. What has he excited?

bb. Who did he endeavor to bring on?

Paragraph 4:

a. What did they do in ever stage of these oppressions?

b. How were their repeated Petitions answered?

c. What is a tyrant Prince unfit to be?

Paragraph 5:

a. Who did they warn and remind and appeal to?

b. What were their British brethren deaf to?

c. What must they hold them as in war?                  In Peace?

Paragraph 6:

a. What did they declare that the United Colonies ought to be?

b. What did they absolve their allegiance to?

c. What did they dissolve?

d. What did they declare their right to do with full power? 

e. What do they support this declaration with? (what do they pledge to each other)