What assumptions are at work in this piece of writing? In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson assumes that all people are the same and talks in this piece as if the people are a crowd and doesn't consider everyone as an individual. The crowd can consist of people with difference races, backgrounds, history, disabilities, whether they are rich or poor, and many other things. He probably thinks that the people all are the same, …showed first 75 words of 447 total…

…showed last 75 words of 447 total…limitation of rights, being deprived of many things like freedom, violence and such. He also assumes that the reader is somewhat knowledgeable in the violations that the tyranny has instilled upon them. Jefferson explicitly tells what has occurred "...for cutting off all trade with all parts of the world; for imposing taxes on us, in many cases without our consent..." Much of the text has been based on Enlightenment ideas, namely those of John Locke.