The Declaration frames its case as provable facts, not mere assertion.

Evidence

Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world. — Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence, 8

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces the evidentiary structure of the indictment — a charge of design rebuttable by ‘a candid world.’