Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. The English spoken in 1776 is considered Late Modern English, but some differences between Jefferson's usage and our own are evident. What archaic expression does he use and how would you word the phrase in correct contemporary English?
Answers
This is the passage from the Declaration of Independence.
Explanation:
In this paragraph, those who were a part in crafting the Independence Declaration display their familiarity with 2d Treatise on Government: Of Civil Government of John Locke. John Locke says:
May be, it is being said that the people are ignorant and always dissatisfied, to lay the government’s foundation in the uncertain humour and unsteady opinion of the people. This is to picture it to some devastation; and no government can survive, if the people may set up a new judicial, when they take crime at the old one.
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