is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War,

giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws;

conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do.

to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity,

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government,

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