(1765), in the City of Boston, Jonathan Mayhew served as the Congregational minister of West Church. His patriotic sermon reflected the Colonists’ feelings toward King George III’s hated Stamp Act:
The king is as much bound by his oath not to infringe the legal rights of the people, as the people are bound to yield subjection to him. From whence it follows that as soon as the prince sets himself above the law, he loses the king in the tyrant. He does, to all intents and purposes, un-king himself.1550