1. Colonists and the Declaration of Independence
As the Declaration made clear, the "long train of abuses and usurpations" plus all of the tyranny the king had displayed, forced the colonists to alter/abolish their government as it was their "right", or "duty" since the government was becoming so destructive. ... In the Declaration, they had even said, "But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing the 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 s...
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