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pat_k

(11,880 posts)
9. True. Although for me, "King" evokes our revolution.
Tue Sep 9, 2025, 07:24 PM
Sep 9

It is long past time for opponents of the 47 regime in the U.S. House and U.S. Senate to issue a new, joint declaration of injuries and usurpations our current "mad King" is committing against us. And that list would include a few injuries and usurpations that look an awful lot like those our Congress "submitted to a candid world" on July 4, 1776.

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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.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
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He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
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He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
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For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
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He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, ..
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