Selected gripes from the Declaration of Independence

[SteveG]

Sound familiar?

Selected gripes from the Declaration of Independence
It's all right there, folks

'He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.' (brainworm bobby, is that you?)

'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.'

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

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

'For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:' ( Like a Texas Army Military buffer zone?)

'For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:'

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