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8486. TRADE, Destroying.—

He [George
III.] has endeavored to pervert the exercise
of the kingly office in Virginia into a detestable
and insupportable tyranny * * * by
combining with others to subject us to a foreign
jurisdiction, giving his assent to their
pretended acts of legislation * * * for
cutting off our trade with all parts of the
world.—
Proposed Va. Constitution. Ford ed., ii, 10.
(June. 1776)