Question

What was the purpose of the preamble to the Declaration of Independence? Question 1 options: to outline the form and responsibilities of each branch of the new independent government to establish the right of the people to overthrow a government that takes away their natural rights to describe in detail the ways that the colonists felt they had been abused by the King of England

Answer 1

Answer: To establish the right of the people to overthrow a government that takes away their natural rights

Explanation:

The Preamble to the Declaration of Independence which was its introduction, showed the foundation upon which the Declaration stood by making it clear that the people had the right to overthrow a Government that takes away their natural rights.

Basing this mostly on the Social Contract theory, the Founding Fathers used this section to justify that their rights as Englishmen and free folk had been impeded upon by the British and so they had both the philosophical and political right to break away.