"Declaraton of Indepedence"
by Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston

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     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.

 

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

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

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

 
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