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3455. GEORGE III., Tyranny of.—

He
[George III.] has endeavored to pervert the
exercise of the Kingly office in Virginia into a
detestable and insupportable tyranny * * * by abandoning the helm of government and
declaring us out of his allegiance and protection.—
Proposed Virginia Constitution. Ford ed., ii, 12.
(June. 1776)