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 * He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly and continually, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
 * He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasion 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 the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
 * Not altered.
 * He has endeavored to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the laws for the naturalization of foreigners, refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands.
 * Not altered.
 * He has suffered the administration of justice totally to cease in some of these States, refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers.
 * He has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers.
 * He has made our judges dependent on his will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
 * 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, by a self-assumed power, and sent hither swarms of new officers to harass our people, and to eat out their substance.
 * He has erected a multitude of new offices and sent hither swarms of new officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.
 * He has kept among us in times of peace standing armies and ships of war, without the consent of our legislatures.
 * 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.
 * Not altered.
 * He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitutions, 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, 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 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 neighboring 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 states; for taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and
 * He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitutions, 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, 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 neighboring province, establishing therein an arbitrary government, and enlarging its boundaries, so as to render it at once an example a.ad fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these colonies; for taking away our charters, abolishing our most
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 * He has kept among us in times of peace standing armies and ships of war, without the consent of our legislatures.
 * 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.
 * Not altered.
 * He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitutions, 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, 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 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 neighboring 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 states; for taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and
 * He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitutions, 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, 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 neighboring province, establishing therein an arbitrary government, and enlarging its boundaries, so as to render it at once an example a.ad fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these colonies; for taking away our charters, abolishing our most
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 * He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitutions, 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, 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 neighboring province, establishing therein an arbitrary government, and enlarging its boundaries, so as to render it at once an example a.ad fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these colonies; for taking away our charters, abolishing our most
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