... a long time, after such dissolutions, 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. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws ... authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare. That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from...

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... it is far less outlandish when one digs back a little bit in pre-19th century US history. Before achieving independence, there were no commercial banks. The first commercial bank, the Bank of North America, was established in 1781. "British merchant banking houses stood at one end of a ... ensued between these leading participants centered on Hamilton's "Reports on Public Credit" that were presented to Congress in the last decade of the 18th century. There were several important elements to these reports that raised the backhairs of the opposition. The first was the widespread use of .....

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