[Prompt Script from Scene 7 of 1776] Page: 13 of 74
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SCENE 7 / 1776
DICKINSON:
How so?-
JEFFERSON:
By taking away their rights.
DICKINSON:
Rights that came from him in the first place.
JEFFERSON:
All except one-the right to be free comes from
nature.
DICKINSON: X L- " V /
Mr. Wilson, do we in Pennsylvan ia consider King
George a tyrant?
WILSON:,,
Mmm? Well-I don't know. [As he meets Dickin-
son's stone stare:] Oh. No-no, we don't. He's not
a tyrant-in Pennsylvania.
DICKINSON:
There you are, Mr. Jefferson. Your Declaration
does not speak for us all. I demand the word
"tyrant" be removed! l j - ,
Thomson begins scratching it out.
JEFFERSON:
Just a moment, Mr. Thomson, I do not consent.
The King is a tyrant whether we say so or not. We
might as well say so.
THOMSON:
But I already scratched it out.JEFFERSON, forcefully:
Then scratch it back inl, ;
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