Read this sentence from the declaration of independence. which idea does this sentence best to develop? but when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government . . a. the colonists should separate from great britain. b. it is self-evident that people have inalienable rights. c. government’s power comes from the people. d. british citizens have also mistreated the colonists.