The Founders intent in the following passage is most likely Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend
an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to
their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the dies of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would
inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must.
therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them as we hold the rest of mankind. Enemies in War in Peace
Friends
D A to sum up the argument which has just been outlined in deta
B to explain the steps already taken to address the problem
DC to che examples of the crimes Great Britain has comed
D. to officially declare the formation of the United States of America