The Purpose of government
Explain one claim Jefferson makes about the purpose of government.<’ But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. —Such has been the patient sufferance ofthese Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.<’ a. According to Jefferson, under what conditions are the people justified in throwing off a government?<’ ( I

