What is the main impact of Jefferson's use of the words self-evident in the following sentence in paragraph two? We hold these truths to be self- evidentthat all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness to invite the reader to analyze the merits of his arguments to place the declaration in the context of the history of Western Civilization to assume the obviousness of the claims being made within the declaration to acknowledge each reader's right to define truth
The main impact of Jefferson's use of the words "self-evident" in the given sentence is to assume the obviousness of the claims being made within the declaration.
