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Jefferson and the Architecture of the Declaration — Homework
Reread the Declaration of Independence's preamble and grievances section before answering.
- 1.Name the Declaration's three structural parts in order.
- 2.What effect does beginning nearly every grievance with "He has..." create, and what is this device called?
- 3.Restate the Declaration's reasoning as a three-step logical argument in your own words.
- 4.Why does placing the natural-rights preamble before the grievances, rather than after, strengthen the document's argument?
- 5.In a full paragraph of six or more sentences, analyze how the Declaration's three-part structure functions as a logical argument, citing at least one specific phrase from the text.
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