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We have more families at risk with the death penalty. It targets the voiceless, the poor, people of color. And so it's important just to understand what your government is doing and how much they are spending.

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Jonathan Mayhew

Not to discontinue our allegiance, in this case, would be to join with the sovereign in promoting the slavery and misery of that society, the welfare of which, we ourselves, as well as our sovereign, are indispensably obliged to secure and promote, as far as in us lies.

Deceit, Indispensably, Lying, Promote, Slavery, Would Be
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The king is as much bound by his oath not to infringe the legal rights of the people, as the people are bound to yield subjection to him. From whence it follows that as soon as the prince sets himself above the law, he loses the king in the tyrant. He does, to all intents and purposes, un-king himself.

Bound, Intents, Kings, Legal, Rights, Yield

People are not usually deprived of their liberties all at once, but gradually, by one encroachment after another, as it is found they are disposed to bear them.

Bears, Deprived, Liberties, Liberty, People

Let us prize our freedom; but not use our liberty for a cloak of maliciousness

Cloak, Cloaks, Let, Liberty, Use

They are more properly ‘The Messengers of Satan to buffet us. ’ No rulers are properly God’s ministers, but such as are ‘just, ruling in the fear of God. ’ When once magistrates act contrary to their office, and the end of their institution when they rob and ruin the public, instead of being guardians of its peace … they immediately cease to be the ordinance and ministers of God, and no more deserve that glorious character than common pirates and highwaymen.

Act, Character, Fear, Office, Pirate, Rulers

To say that subjects in general are not proper judges (of the law) when their governors oppress them and play the tyrant, and when they defend their rights. . . is as great a treason as ever a man uttered.

Defend, Governors, Men, Rights, Subjects, Trust
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