6. "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.

7. "He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly [and
continually] for opposing, with manly firmness, his invasions on
the rights of the people.

8. "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 meantime, exposed
to dangers of invasions from without and convulsions within.

9. "He has endeavored 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.

10. "He has [suffered] the administration of justice [totally to
cease in some of these states], refusing his assent to laws for
establishing judiciary powers.

11. "He has made [our] judges dependent on his will alone for the
tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their
salaries.

12. "He has erected a multitude of new offices [by a self-assumed
power], and sent hither swarms of new officers to harass our
people and eat out their substance.

13. "He has kept among us in times of peace standing armies [and
ships of war] without the consent of our legislatures.

14. "He has affected to render the military independent of and
superior to the civil power.

15. "He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction
foreign to our constitutions, 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
by a mock trial from punishment, any murders which they should
commit on the inhabitants of these states; for cutting off our
trade with all ports of the world; for imposing taxes on us
without our consent; for depriving us of the benefits of trial by
jury; for transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended
offenses; for abolishing the free system of English laws in a
neighboring province, establishing therein an arbitrary
government, and enlarging its boundaries so as to render it at