If then, the stamp act was an usurpation of the Americans' most precious and sacred rights, the declaratory Act left them no rights at all; and contained the full grown seeds of the most despotic government ever exercised in the world.
Paine argues that the Declaratory Act stripped Americans of their rights and set the stage for tyranny.
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