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Very few would argue that actually.

One might say that the founders ancestors set up the English government an later ancestors let it make an empire so the founders should have just lived with colonial policy.

I would say, however, this is an impractical application of the contract. Based on what the English government was supposed to do for its citizens and what it acually did, the founders were entirely justified to rebel.

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