Answer:
4. Increase public support for American independence.
This document was written to persuade people to break away from the King's unfair rules.
Explanation:
The development of weapons sufficiently enormous for commonly guaranteed devastation seen as an approach to protect peace is on the grounds that the knowledge that both sides would absolutely be decimated in any hard and fast war would keep either side from beginning threats.
The old Roman Republic from its Empire had it's Emperor, Hail Caesar, with nearly absolute power. But being a republic then, they also had a Senate of which the Senators were elected from the people, as government's representatives of and for the people. This concept can be adapted to resemble our current legislative branch, vis-à-vis Congress. And of course our executive, commander-in-chief, stems from a less domineering figure of Rome's Emperor Caesar.
