1. What is the reason for the drafting of the Declaration as stated in its opening paragraph?

2. What had the king asked the people to relinquish? What did this right mean to them? Why is such a right formidable to tyrants?

3. What has the king dissolved? What effect has this had on the people?

4. What has the king declared? What destructive things has he done?

5. What powers do the united colonies have?