Donald Trump has fulfilled many of the grievances levied against King George III in the Declaration of Independence.
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Bennett
On July 4th, 1776, a group of terrorists, radicals, and revolutionaries approved a declaration of their rights, their grievances, and their proposed solution independence and self-determination. Their complaints against the despot, King George the Third included that he refused his assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation, till his assent should be attained, and when so suspended he is utterly neglected to attend to them.
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He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodations of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right to representation in the legislature, a right inestimable to them, and formidable to tyrants only.
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he has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public records for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness is invasion on the rights of the people. He has refused for a long time after such dissolution to cause others to be elected, whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation have returned to the people at large for their exercise, the state remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without and convulsions within.
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He has endeavored to prevent the populations of these states for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners, refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands. He is obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers. He has made judges dependent on his will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount in payment of their salaries.
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He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass 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 is affected to render the military independent of and superior to the civil power.
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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.
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For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us.
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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. For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury. For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses.
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For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighboring province. Establishing therein an arbitrary government, and enlarging its boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these colonies. For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our government. For suspending our own legislatures and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
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his abdicated government here by declaring us out of his protection and waging war against us. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coast, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation.
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He has constrained our fellow citizens, taken captive on the high seas to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fold themselves by their hands. He has excited domestic insurrections among us, and has endeavored to bring down the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian savages, whose known rules of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
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It was these acts of despotism that eventually led these radicals to the breaking point, to the point where they were forced to acknowledge that 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.
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It is the most fundamentally American thing to do. Happy Independence Day.
