1.2.9 Practice English 11: Complete Your Assignment Practice Assignment

1.2.9 Practice: Complete Your Assignment Practice Assignment English 11 (S) Points possible: 30 Date: ____________ The Declaration of Independence has version of English that is unusual to the way we communicate nowadays. This historical document allow us to perceive how language evolves by the time. The writing is also very persuasiveand formal, and uses strong arguments to support moral principles. Nowadays, important documents are more objective and techinical, and often easy to comprehend. Below, there is the Declaration of Independence and some annotations for better understanding. 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, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable1 Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness2.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed1,--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 Gov