In Congress, , 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America
[…]But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security.
Such has been the patient Sufferance of these
ColoniesStates; and such is now the Necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The History of the PresentKing of Great-BritainChief Executive 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 the Facts be submitted to a candid World[…]He has endeavoured to prevent the Population of these States; for that Purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their Migrations hither[…]
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice[…]
For cutting off our Trade with all Parts of the World[…]
For imposing taxes on us without our Consent[…]
For depriving us, in many Cases, of the Benefits of Trial by Jury[…]
For transporting us beyond the Seas to be tried for pretended Offences[…]
For[…] abolishing our most valuable Laws[…]
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us[…]
He has excited domestic Insurrections among us[…]
A
PrincePresident, whose Character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the Ruler of a free People.