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representation in the legislature; a right inestimable to them, and 

 formidable to tyrants only. 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. 



He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing, 

 with manly firmness, his invasions on the rights of the people. 



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 ; 

 the State remaining, in the meantime, exposed to all the dangers of 

 invasion from without, and convulsions within. 



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. 



He has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his 

 assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers. 



He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of 

 their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. 



He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms 

 of officers, to harass our people, and eat out their substance. 



He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies, without 

 the consent of our legislatures. 



He has affected to render the military independent of. and superior 

 to the civil power. 



He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign 

 to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his 

 assent to their acts of pretended legislation: 



For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us; 



For protecting them, by a mock trial, from punishment for any 

 murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these 



states; 



6 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 ; 



For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighbouring 

 province, establishing therein an arbitrary government, and enlarg- 

 ing its boundaries, so as to render it at once an example and fit in- 

 strument for introducing the same absolute rule into these colonies; 



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 in- 

 vested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. 



He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his pro- 

 tection, and waging war against us. 



He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, 

 and destroyed the lives of our people. 



He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries 

 to complete the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already be- 

 gun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy, scarcely paralleled in 

 the most barbarous ages, and totall} T unworthy the head of a civilised 

 nation. 



