In the United States Declaration of Independence, the British government is cited to have been reducing the American people under absolute despotism: " 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 ".

In the United States Declaration of Independence, colonists complained that George III " has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good 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.

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