: Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean

: Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark

: Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery

: John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry

: Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton,George Clymer,James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross

: Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton

which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice

to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations,

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms:

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

Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country,

to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers. He has made Judges dependent on his Will

from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain,

and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: For suspending our own Legislatures,

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers,

burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries