Ineed asap i will mark brains if correct and five stars! read this sentence from the declaration of independence. 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, and to provide new guards for their future security. what does the word despotism refer to in this sentence? question 1 options: an inept government a distant government a controlling government a tyrannical government