Read This Excerpt About the Kings Actions From the Declaration of Independence

I North CONGRESS, J ULY 4, 1776

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America

hen in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to deliquesce the political bands which have connected them with another and to presume among the powers of the earth, the divide and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We agree these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with sure unalienable Rights, that amidst these are Life, Freedom and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever whatsoever Grade of Authorities becomes subversive of these ends, it is the Correct of the People to alter or to cancel it, and to institute new Authorities, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such class, every bit to them shall seem well-nigh likely to effect their Prophylactic and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should non exist inverse for lite and transient causes; and accordingly all feel hath shewn that mankind are more tending to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accepted. Merely when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a blueprint to reduce them nether absolute Despotism, information technology is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great U.k. is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

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

He has forbidden his Governors to laissez passer 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 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 chosen 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, later on such dissolutions, to cause others to exist elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at big 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 foreclose 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 atmospheric condition of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice past refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Volition 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 here swarms of Officers to harass our people and consume out their substance.

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

He has afflicted to render the Armed services independent of and superior to the Civil Power.

He has combined with others to subject united states 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 penalty for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cut 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 do good of Trial by Jury:

For transporting u.s.a. 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 one time an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute dominion into these Colonies

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

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

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring u.s.a. out of his Protection and waging War confronting us.

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

He is at this time transporting big Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, pathos, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the near vicious ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to behave Artillery against their Country, to get the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections among us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known dominion of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We take Petitioned for Redress in the most apprehensive terms: Our repeated Petitions accept been answered only past repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked past every human activity which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a gratuitous people.

Nor take We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts past their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over united states. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them past the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deafened to the vox of justice and of consanguinity. Nosotros must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and concord them, as we agree the rest of flesh, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united states of america, in Full general Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Gauge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Proper name, and past Authorisation of the practiced People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have total Power to levy State of war, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, plant Commerce, and to exercise all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

New Hampshire:
Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton

Massachusetts:
John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry

Rhode Island:
Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery

Connecticut:
Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott

New York:
William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris

New Jersey:
Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark

Pennsylvania:
Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross

Delaware:
Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean

Maryland:
Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton

Virginia:
George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton

N Carolina:
William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn

Due south Carolina:
Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton

Georgia:
Push button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton

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