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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...:

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging
War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives
of our people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the
works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty &
Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head
of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms
against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall
themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the
inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare,
is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions...

A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit
to be the ruler of a free people.
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Under whose influence, Christ’s or Satan’s, was this document written? It is ever the
practice of rebels to give justification for their actions to make it appear that the casting off
of authority is both reasonable and justified. It is not the counsel of Yahweh that His people
do so, however. Peter states, “For this finds favor, if for the sake of conscience toward God
a person bears up under sorrows when suffering unjustly.”

It is insightful to compare this document to a passage from the book of Isaiah that describes
Satan’s rebellion against God.

Isaiah 14:12-14
How you have fallen from heaven, O star of the morning, son of the dawn! You have been
cut down to the earth, you who have weakened the nations! But you said in your heart,
'I will ascend to heaven;
I will raise my throne above the stars of God, and
I will sit on the mount of assembly in the recesses of the north.
I will ascend above the heights of the clouds;
I will make myself like the Most High.'

As we look at these two declarations side by side, we observe the two sides of rebellion.
Eighteen times Thomas Jefferson wrote the charge “He has,” this being 6+6+6. Five times