Paragraph 1 establishes I. ethos
II. pathos
III. logos
A.
I
B.
II
C.
III
D.
I and II
E.
I, II, and III

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one portion of the family of man to assume among the people of the earth a position different from that which they have hitherto occupied, but one 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 that impel them to such a course