When a long train of abuses and usurpations,
pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism... The history of the present King...is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States...
He has endeavoured to prevent the population 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 has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers....
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 combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution...
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world...
The Declaration of Independence
History does not repeat but it certainly echoes.
= new reply since forum marked as read
