Button Gwinnett, Matthew Thornton and the other 54 radicals would surely be seen as enemies of today’s state. The committee of five would surely be prosecuted under the Patriot Act. Their words are as powerful—and as applicable—today as they were then:
“a long train of abuses and usurpations . . . evinces a design to reduce [a people] 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.”
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