The Declaration of Independence has four main parts:
* a preamble, or foreword, that announces the reason for the document
* a declaration of people's natural rights and relationship to government
* a long list of complaints against George III, the British king
* a conclusion that formally states America's independence
Helpful definitions:
unalienable: that may not be taken away
despotism: absolute power or control; tyranny
transient: passing away with time
usurpations: acts of wrongfully taking over a right or power that belongs to someone else
conjured: appealed to
consanguinity: blood relationship
acquiesce in the necessity which denounces: recognize that we must demand
parallelism: the use of similar grammatical forms to express ideas of equal importance
insurrections: an act or instance of rising in revolt, rebellion, or resistance against civil authority or an established government
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