No Kings.
...absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown.
Declaration of Independence · 1776
The founding refusal.
The American project begins with a refusal. Not a programme, not a manifesto, a refusal. The Declaration of Independence is a list of reasons one people will no longer be ruled by a hereditary monarch.
"No Kings" compresses that refusal to two words. It is not a slogan invented for a moment. It is the oldest American idea there is.
Why it is not partisan.
Quorum's position is positive and constitutional. "No Kings" reads as opposition to one person only if you forget the history. Read with the history, it is simply the first principle of the republic: power is granted by the governed and is not inherited.
It is anti-monarchy, which is to say, it is American.
How we set it.
Declarative and plain. "No" sits hard in roman; "Kings" takes the italic accent so the eye lands on the thing being refused. Two words, full stop, no decoration. The composition is built to read from across a room.