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When in the Course of human events...
...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...
...He has 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 obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them...
...He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance...
...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...
...For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments...
...For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever...
Does any of this sound familiar concerning today's tyrants who wear black robes instead of ermine robes and a jeweled crown?
(Is it still worth the paper it's printed on?)