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3983. INSURRECTION, George III. and.—

He[George III.] has endeavored to
pervert the exercise of the Kingly office in
Virginia into a detestable and insupportable
tyranny * * * by inciting insurrections
of our fellow subjects with the allurements
of forfeiture and confiscation.—
Proposed Va. Constitution. Ford ed., ii, 11.
(June. 1776)