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Saturday, June 20th, 2009 | Author: markross

“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”…

compendium of grievances…
 

“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”…

From The Declaration of Independence
Written primarily by Thomas Jefferson
 
Further reading…
While evils are sufferable
And they appealed to their British brothers
And they mutually pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor

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    markross 
    Friday, 26. June 2009

    Have we not written tirelessly to our Representatives?

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