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Question 2. 2.
Read the passage from the Declaration of Independence.


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.—Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies, and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government.


What does the metaphor “to throw off such government and to provide new guards for their future securit

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Question 2. 2.
Read the passage from the Declaration of Independence.


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.—Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies, and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government.


What does the metaphor “to throw off such government and to provide new guards for their future security” mean?


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to declare themselves free of English rule and to protect themselves from future threats



to hire new guards who will throw oppressive leaders out of government buildings



to ignore the king’s laws and guard their coastline until they feel safe from invasion



to force the king to retire and to call for the election of a new British Parliament