What is the best way to be an active listener? take notes about what others say, and state your opinion at every possible opportunity. focus just on your ideas while others are talking, and form an opinion you would like to share. pay attention to what others are saying, and always look at the person who is speaking. look around the room, and begin talking as soon as there is something you want to say.

Read the excerpt below and answer the question. and though we well know that this assembly elected by the people for the ordinary purposes of legislation only, have no power to restrain the acts of succeeding assemblies constituted with powers equal to our own, and that therefore to declare this act irrevocable would be of no effect in law; yet we are free to declare, and do declare that the rights hereby asserted, are of the natural rights of mankind, and that if any act shall be hereafter passed to repeal the present or to narrow its operation, such act will be an infringement of natural right. in at least 100 words, explain what jefferson says here about the revocability of laws and what that means for his virginia statute for religious freedom.