Tyranny and despotism | US History | Khan Academy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7kSDHFXwZ4 MORE: Jefferson expressed in the Declaration of Independence, e.g. "...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..." https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/when-injustice-becomes-law-resistance-becomes-duty-spurious-quotation - - - - In Congress, July 4, 1776 https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript