read the following excerpt from the declaration of independence when in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends It is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it and to Institute new government laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in search form As to them shall seem most likely to affect their safety and happiness the history of the present king of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations to prove this let facts be submitted to a candid world he has refused his assent to laws The most wholesome and necessary for the public good how do the authors of the declaration best use deductive reasoning to support the idea that the colonists have a right to form a new government