DC: the last colony…

“…[Congress], with an army to enforce [its] tyranny, has declared that [it] has a right (not only to TAX) but "to BIND us in ALL CASES WHATSOEVER," and if being bound in that manner, is not slavery, then is there not such a thing as slavery upon earth. Even the expression is impious; for so unlimited a power can belong only to God.”

Slightly paraphrased from “The American Crisis:
Number One”
by Thomas Paine
(1776 - 1783)