Which statement best summarizes the following portion of the declaration of independence? when in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's god entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. a. nations should make clear why they no longer want to be allied with one another b. sometimes nations must separate from one another c. nature provides certain privileges to some nations d. nations should remain separate and equal from one another