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From the chapter “The Declaration of Independence” in The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III by Andrew Roberts:
The Declaration of Independence is simultaneously grotesquely hypocritical, illogial, mendacious and sublime. As one American historian has put it, the twenty-eight charges are ‘very dull and tiresome and mean nothing much to a modern mind except that one carries away a general impression that the King must have been a horrible monster of tyranny and cruelty against an innocent child-like and loving people’. So Jefferson achieved his end, and has continued to do so every since, especially in the United States where the document has attained the status of Holy Writ.