He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us

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

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

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

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

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

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 has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

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

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

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