Taxation without Representation: 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., He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people., For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent, For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever., 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:, Violence used against them: 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 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., For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us, 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, He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions, 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., Tighter British Control (laws): For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:, He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good., 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 erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance., 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:,

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