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What does this quote from the declaration of independence mean? (in depth)

"but when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government and provide new guards for their future security."ā€‹

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It means that the colonist are separating from Great Britain.

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