Appeals
The history of the present King of Great Britain is a
What type of rhetorical appeal does Jefferson rely on in
history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in
this passage?
direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny
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over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to
candid world.
How does he make this appeal?
He has refused his
Assent to Laws, the most wholesome
and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of
immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in
their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and
when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to
them.
-The Declaration of Independence,
Thomas Jefferson