Harper's encyclopædia of United States history from 458 1906, based upon the plan of Benson John Lossing .. . flALL, PHILADELPHIA. obstructing the laws for naturalization of standing armies, without the consent of foreigners, refusing to pass others to en- our legislatures. courage their migration hither, and rais- He has affected to render the military ing the conditions of new appropriations independent of and superior to the civil of lands. power. He has obstructed the administration of He has combined with others to subject justice, by refusing his assent to laws for us
Harper's encyclopædia of United States history from 458 1906, based upon the plan of Benson John Lossing .. . flALL, PHILADELPHIA. obstructing the laws for naturalization of standing armies, without the consent of foreigners, refusing to pass others to en- our legislatures. courage their migration hither, and rais- He has affected to render the military ing the conditions of new appropriations independent of and superior to the civil of lands. power. He has obstructed the administration of He has combined with others to subject justice, by refusing his assent to laws for us to a jurisdiction foreign to our consti- establishing judiciary powers. tution and unacknowledged by our Jaws; 37 DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. GARDKN HOUSE IN WHICH JEFFERSON AND OTHKBS CKLEURATEDTHE PASSAGE OF THE DECLARATION. For abolishing the free systemof English law in a neighboringprovince, establishing therein an ar-bitrary government, and enlargingits boundaries so as to render it atonce an example and fit instru-ment for introducing the same ab-solute rule into these colonies: For taking away our charters,abolishing our most valuable laws,and altering fundamentally theforms of our government: For suspending our own legislat-ures, and declaring themselves in-vested with power to legislate forus in all cases whatsoever. He has abdicated government hereby declaring us out of his protec-tion, and waging war against us. He has plundered our seas, rav-aged our coasts, burned our towns,and destroyed the lives of our is at this time transporting largearmies of foreign mercenaries, to corn- giving his assent to their acts of pre-tended legislation,— For quartering large bodies of armed plete the works of death,
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