"He has erected a multitude
of New Offices,
and sent hither
swarms of Officers
to harass our people
and eat out their substance."
- from the Declaration of Independence...
... in reference to King George III
The King was poorly suited for the demands presented by the age.
.... A long chain of ineffective appointments to parliament and an over-dependence on people whom he merely felt unthreatened by, resulted in terrible instability in policy both at home and abroad.
Tom Paine pointed out, tellingly, in his treatise Common Sense, that a major failure of Monarchy was the specter of the people presented with "an ass for a lion" in the person of the King.
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