[April Lexington]

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...

[callisto]

...Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain the United States of America is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.