What changes made in text show a desire not to make an absolute break from the English people? Why do you think it would be important that the new nation maintain its "consanguinity" or close kinship, with the english people?

The Declaration of Independence says: In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms: our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. Indicates desire to not make an absolute break.