HISTORICAL "INTENT" AND "HISTORY"
- When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, and decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
- But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.
- The history of the present King of Great Britain 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 made judges dependent on his will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount of and payment of their salaries.
- He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.
- He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies, without the consent of our legislature.
- 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.
- For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
- For protecting them, by a mock trial, from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states:
- For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world:
- For imposing taxes without our consent:
- For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury:
- For abolishing the free system of English laws in neighboring province, establishing there in an arbitrary government and enlarging its boundaries, so as to render it at once an example of fit instrument fro instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these colonies:
- For taking away charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering the fundamentally the forms of our government;
- For suspending our own legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
POWER CLEAN!
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Constitutional Analysis, by ME, Bad Ass, signing off from the Greenwood City Library, outside of Seattle, Washington, reposting, due to theft, hacking, from GWDLIB17! 17, sign for my birthday, December 17, 1954, at 3:59 pm, 8/26/2017, JoAnn S. Secrist, no other versions of my name!
SUPPORTING WHAT YOU LOVE!
INSPIRING A SMARTER WORLD!
Constitutional Analysis, by ME, Bad Ass, signing off from the Greenwood City Library, outside of Seattle, Washington, reposting, due to theft, hacking, from GWDLIB17! 17, sign for my birthday, December 17, 1954, at 3:59 pm, 8/26/2017, JoAnn S. Secrist, no other versions of my name!
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