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Which quotation from the Declaration of Independence indicates that the Founding Fathers were uncomfortable with the idea of having a monarchy in the newly independent colonies?

“The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations.”
“A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”
“To secure these unalienable rights, governments are instituted among men.”
“[I]t becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another.”

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“A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”

This line explicitly rejects the idea of a monarch ruling a free people, not just listing grievances against the current king.