these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are [Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown], and that [all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved]

https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript

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President Barack Obama formal request to the United Kingdom on the 11/17/16: TO SPY ON DONALD TRUMP AND HIS ORGANISATION