How to pronounce “usurped” in English

had already and long ago declared it quote 'a mere thing of wax.' Thomas Jefferson, not long after the Constitution was enforced, lamented aloud that the Justicesof the Supreme Court had already usurped the right of quote 'exclusively explaining the Constitution' and therefore could, as the nation's first judicial activists, 'twistand shape it' unquote into any form they please, like so much revolutionary Play-Doh.