As members of an age of reason, jefferson and other revolutionary leaders wished to seem not hot-headed but reasonable. what reason is given in the first paragraph for issuing the declaration?

In the first paragraph of the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson explains that  such proclaim is issued to explain for the reasons that entitles the thirteen colonies to dissolve the political bands that tied them to the English ruling.

The first paragraph explains why a political separation from England was necessary. The first paragraph explains that it will declare the causes that motivated the separation. It reveals the intentions of the colonists to dissolve the political bonds connecting them to the British  

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