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4619. LEGISLATURES, Usurpation of power.—

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitutions
and unacknowledged by our laws,
giving his assent to their acts of pretended
legislation for * * * suspending our own
legislatures and declaring themselves invested
with power to legislate for us in all cases
whatsoever.—
Declaration of Independence as Drawn by Jefferson.