Read the excerpt from the Declaration of Independence.

"Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."

Why is this sentence included?

to encourage other colonies to wait before following the American colonists’ example

to underscore that the document’s signers do not take their actions lightly

to signal the signers’ faith that their new government will last centuries

to emphasize the historical nature of the signers’ actions

to show the British that they lost their chance to resolve things diplomatically