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4578. LEGISLATURES, Convening.—

He [George III.] has endeavored to pervert
the exercise of the kingly office in Virginia
into a detestable and insupportable tyranny
* * * by refusing to call legislatures for a long
space of time, thereby leaving the political
system without any legislative head.—
Proposed Va. Constitution. Ford ed., ii, 10.
(June. 1776)