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.—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 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 mean
time 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 harrass 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:—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 enlarging its
Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and
fit instrument 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
invested with power to legislate for us in all cases
whatsoever.—He has abdicated Government