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May 9, 2011

"Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day;

but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate and systematical plan of reducing us to slavery.

When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights, when they have assumed to themselves powers which the people never put into their hands, then indeed their continuing in office becomes dangerous to the state, and calls for an exercise of the power of dissolution”. --Thomas Jefferson, A Summary View of the Rights of British America. 1774 [Larwyn's Linx: The Senate Seeks to Create Caesar]

Posted by Vanderleun at May 9, 2011 9:47 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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