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. (1)

Paragraph 1 establishes
I. ethos
II. pathos
III. logos
A. 1
B. 11
C. III
D. I and II
E. I, II, and III