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Quotation from Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms by Continental Congress
“We are reduced to the alternative of chusing an unconditional submission to the tyranny of irritated ministers, or resistance by force.”
Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms, The stated alternative (Avalon / Tansill 1927)
The practical choice is named without ornament, in the spelling "chusing" as the source has it.
Citation: "We are reduced to the alternative of chusing an unconditional submission to the tyranny of irritated ministers, or resistance by force." — Continental Congress, Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms, The stated alternative (Avalon / Tansill 1927). (id declaration-of-the-causes-and-necessity-of-taking-up-arms-q3)
