He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
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He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
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He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
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He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
jul 3, 2025, 9:08 pm • 0 0 • view
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
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For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
jul 3, 2025, 9:12 pm • 0 0 • view
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
jul 3, 2025, 9:13 pm • 0 0 • view
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
jul 3, 2025, 9:14 pm • 0 0 • view
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
jul 3, 2025, 9:14 pm • 0 0 • view
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
jul 3, 2025, 9:14 pm • 0 0 • view
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
jul 3, 2025, 9:15 pm • 0 0 • view
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise;
jul 3, 2025, 9:09 pm • 0 0 • view
the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
jul 3, 2025, 9:09 pm • 0 0 • view
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
jul 3, 2025, 9:09 pm • 0 0 • view
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
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He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
jul 3, 2025, 9:10 pm • 0 0 • view
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
jul 3, 2025, 9:10 pm • 0 0 • view
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
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