Willa Adams

Boalsburg

Straight from our Declaration of Independence, the founders of the United States declared independence from England’s King George III for, among other things, the following reasons:

“He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good”

“He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.”

“He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners”

“He has obstructed the Administration of Justice”

“For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world”

“For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by jury, For transporting us beyond the Seas to be tried for pretended offenses”

“For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Government”

“He has incited insurrection among us”

After enumerating these issues, they asserted that “A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”

The same can be said of a President. And, by the way, King George III by all accounts was mentally ill, exhibiting manic phases of mental illness. Hmmm.