Simplified Declaration of Independence Grievances

Question 1

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Answer 1

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He ignores important laws for the common good.

Question 2

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Answer 2

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.

Question 3

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Answer 3

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.

Question 4

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Answer 4

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.

Question 5

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Answer 5

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

Question 6

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Answer 6

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.

Question 7

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Answer 7

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

Question 8

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Answer 8

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.

Question 9

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Answer 9

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

Question 10

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Answer 10

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

Question 11

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Answer 11

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

Question 12

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Answer 12

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:

Question 13

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Answer 13

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

Question 14

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Answer 14

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

Question 15

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Answer 15

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

Question 16

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Answer 16

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

Question 17

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Answer 17

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences

Question 18

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Answer 18

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:

Question 19

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Answer 19

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

Question 20

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Answer 20

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

Question 21

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Answer 21

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

Question 22

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Answer 22

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

Question 23

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Answer 23

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.

Question 24

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Question 25

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Question 26

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Question 27

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