22. For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

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

20. For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighboring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies.

19. For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offenses.

18. For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Jury trial.

17. For imposing taxes on us without our consent.

16. For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world.

14. For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us.

15. For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States.

13. 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.

12. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.

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

10. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

9. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.