"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."
These lines establish the __________________ for the Declaration of Independence
Answer: This is the Preamble of the Declaration of Independence.
Explanation: A preamble is essentially an opening paragraph. It establishes what the document will talk about, and serves as a "table of contents" for it. Some of my teachers called it the "cliff-notes" version of a document.
