Usurpations

But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security.

Disillusionment with Obama grows 2010

But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security.

Disillusionment with Obama grows 2010

Yes, betsybounds, we are indeed suffering a Train of Abuses and Usurpations, and new ones are being created every day.

Disillusionment with Obama grows 2010

"A long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism" ...

Conchita Sarnoff: Teens Sold as Sex Slaves on Craigslist 2010

But then there comes this: “But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security.”

The calm before the storms 2010

I do not think the anxiety evidently suffered by some commentors over the partisan political antics of Obama and the Democrats rise to the level of the “Train of Abuses and Usurpations” mentioned in the Declaration as justification for the American Revolution.

Disillusionment with Obama grows 2010

In the “Radical Review” first appeared the three following: “Our Financiers: Their Ignorance, Usurpations, and Frauds,” “The Law of Prices: A Demonstration of the Necessity for an Indefinite Increase of Money,” and “Gold and Silver as Standards of Value.”

The Volokh Conspiracy » Remembering Lysander Spooner: 2009

It is very hard to imagine how your “proper noun” theory operates in the following: “But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design …” Help me out with this.

Think Progress » Malkin On Detainee Suicides: ‘Boo-Freakin-Hoo’ 2006

But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security.

Reflections on Independence, Volume 5 2007

The History of the present King of Great - Britain is a History of repeated Injuries and Usurpations, all having in direct Object the Establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.

Reflections on Independence, Volume 5 2007