Read the excerpt from the Declaration of Independence. For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with Power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. What ideas are associated with the words taking, abolishing, suspending?
“Taking away,” “abolishing,” and “suspending” describe actions that remove or stop the colonists’ rights and institutions. In the excerpt, these actions show Britain asserting authority over the colonies. The associated ideas are power and control, choice A.
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