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1 1 1 Vetoing colonial laws Self-government He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. The King blocked laws the colonies passed for their own good. 1  
2 2 2 Suspending urgent laws Self-government He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate 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 forced urgent local laws to wait for his approval, then ignored them. 1  
3 3 3 Representation as ransom 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 would only pass laws for growing areas if they gave up their right to representation. 1  
4 4 4 Inconvenient legislatures Representation 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 convened legislatures in far, awkward places to wear them into submission. 1  
5 5 5 Dissolving assemblies Representation He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. He repeatedly shut down elected assemblies for standing up to him. 1  
6 6 6 Blocking new elections Representation 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. After dissolving them, he refused to allow new elections, leaving people exposed. 1  
7 7 7 Blocking immigration and land Immigration 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 tried to stop the colonies from growing by obstructing immigration and land grants. 1  
8 8 8 Obstructing the courts Justice He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers. He blocked the laws needed to set up functioning courts. 1  
9 9 9 Judges beholden to the King Justice He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He controlled judges' jobs and pay, so they answered to him, not the law. 1  
10 10 10 Swarms of officials Government overreach He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance. He created many new offices and sent officials who harassed people and drained their resources. 1  
11 11 11 Standing armies in peacetime Military He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He kept armies stationed among the colonists in peacetime without their consent. 1  
12 12 12 Military over civil power Military He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He tried to put the military above civilian government. 1  
13 13 13 Foreign jurisdiction Sovereignty 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: He teamed with Parliament to impose laws the colonies never recognized. 1  
14 14 14 Forced quartering of troops Military For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: He forced colonists to house large numbers of soldiers. 1  
15 15 15 Sham trials for soldiers Justice For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States: He shielded soldiers from real punishment for crimes against colonists via fake trials. 1  
16 16 16 Cutting off trade Trade For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: He blocked the colonies from trading with the rest of the world. 1  
17 17 17 Taxation without consent Taxes For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: He taxed the colonies without their agreement. (No taxation without representation.) 1  
18 18 18 Denying jury trials Justice For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury: He denied colonists trial by jury in many cases. 1  
19 19 19 Trials overseas Justice For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences: He shipped colonists across the ocean to be tried on trumped-up charges. 1  
20 20 20 Arbitrary rule next door Sovereignty 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: He set up arbitrary rule in a neighboring province as a model to impose on the colonies. 1  
21 21 21 Revoking charters Self-government For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: He revoked colonial charters and rewrote their forms of government. 1  
22 22 22 Suspending legislatures Self-government For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. He suspended colonial legislatures and claimed total power to legislate for them. 1  
23 23 23 Abdication and war War He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. He abandoned governing and instead declared war on the colonies. 1  
24 24 24 Plunder and destruction War He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. His forces raided the seas and coasts, burned towns, and killed colonists. 1  
25 25 25 Foreign mercenaries War 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. He was sending foreign mercenary armies to continue the war with unusual cruelty. 1  
26 26 26 Forcing captives to fight War 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 and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands. He forced captured colonists to take up arms against their own country. 1  
27 27 27 Inciting frontier violence War 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 stirred up internal revolts and frontier attacks. (Note: this clause uses 18th-century language now recognized as a dehumanizing slur against Native Americans.) 1  

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CREATE VIRTUAL TABLE grievances_fts using fts5(num, short_title, theme, text, plain_english);