Four of the educational duties of students in the United States: 1. Obey the teachers 2. Maintain discipline in the class 3. Abide by the rules of the school 4. Complete the assigned work on time.
Whether or not they are aware of it, students have several educational civic duties. Education is not an option in America. Students are required to attain a basic education supplemented with critical thinking strategies, problem solving skills, and a dose of social/civic responsibility. The end goal of the latter skill sets is the creation of a productive citizen who contributes to society.
On 20 April 1945, Hitler's 56th birthday, Soviet artillery of the 1st Belorussian Front began shelling Berlin and did not stop until the city surrendered.
I think the correct phrase for the answer is, dissolve the political bands. It was the political bands that tie the American people as a British colony. Thomas Jefferson clearly states the bond between the states that prohibits them from their freedom.