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He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance |
We cannot trade with other countries |
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He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance |
The King has made many people his employees and has sent them to America, where they bother the colonists and eat the colonists’ food. |
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For cutting off our Trade with other parts of the world |
The king’s governors cannot pass laws quickly enough to prevent problems
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For imposing taxes without our consent |
The King taxes the colonists without the colonists having any say about it.
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For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us. |
The king has sent many soldiers to the colonies and made them live in the homes of the colonists |
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He has called 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 |
The king made legislative meetings at faraway places from the home of the representatives and their records just to make them too tired to argue with him anymore |
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He made judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices and the amount and payment of their salaries. |
The King has acted like a pirate on the seas and destroyed our lives by burning down our houses. |
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He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts and burnt our towns and destroyed the lives of our people. |
Judges could only hold their office with the agreement of the King so they went along with what they wanted him to do to keep their jobs and their salaries. |
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He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken captive on the high seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends, brethren, or fall themselves by their hands |
The King captured our people on ships at sea and made them join the British army to fight against their friends, family or die for the King’s rule. |
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He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us and has endeavored 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 |
The King changed everything in the colonies. He took away our colonial charters and the laws we followed and our rights. When he did this he took away the basic foundation and form or our government. |
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For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, altering fundamentally the Forms of our Government |
The King made rules, laws, and conditions in our colonies that turned us against each other Then the King got the Indians on the frontier to go along with him and fight on his side when he knew that the way the Indians fought was to totally destroy everyone and everything |
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