Category: Hamlet
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Question #11
What does "exposed" mean in this grievance??
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Question #3
There is some unusual grammar in the first sentence.
What does "united States" mean in this context?
Question #8
This document states that peopel can do three things to a government that is destructive to human rights. What are those three actions?
Question #12
What does it mean that "the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation"?
Question #4
The founding fathers stated that "it becomes necessary to dissolve the political bands…"
What does "dissolve" mean in this phrase?
Question #9
What does the phrase below mean?
"…all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."
Question #13
What are you still unsure about in these first 6 grievances?
Question #5
Later in the paragraph they state:
"to assume among the powers of the earth"
What does "assume" mean in this context?