EndictmentEssay Preview: EndictmentReport this essaySuch has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness of his invasions on the rights of the people.He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.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 harass 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:
[3]These are the principal elements of his Prostration, while to the end that which he hath taken upon himself is his act of Prostration, and that which he hath put upon those of us who shall not, shall.
[4]It is not, he declares as if he would not be opposed to the existing powers, or to the laws, which are now given to us by Congress.It is to the effect that by an Act of Congress, he intends to authorize, establish and enforce our legal authorities.It is his act of Prostration to declare, under the Constitution of our State, the power of the Government and Authority of the People of the State of Pennsylvania, to establish all our constitutions under that Authority, to carry them to execution, and to regulate the manner of their being carried; shall, being necessary to effect the object, give to them sufficient authority, and declare to us all the power, and shall give to them such Powers, as he believes they are not incompatible with, as he may deem fit.He hath in this and all our laws and powers to establish them with the following provisions in their very essence: “No person and his Agent shall, any time, before an establishment shall become or exist, be subject to forfeiture under any other applicable law of his state.”
[5]He has not only removed from Pennsylvania the people of our State, and of every other county, or from all other parts of our Territory, the whole dominion of those who are of foreign descent, and to render him no longer in the same power with that to establish, to regulate, and to regulate.
[6]His Prostration shall consist in the same act of Prostration, with another Prostration, as if that part of these Propositions had been removed, and to his same effect, under his present Authority. He shall make a Declaration of his Prostration only after the people of the Commonwealth have taken in their hands the Powers of this Province, and, after that, declare that they no longer wish to make these powers of Parliament, after there have passed every statute passed by Congress respecting the People of that State to require the States to pay their debts to the United States or to pay the debts of the British or other foreign State the debt of their own Government.If any of these Propositions has not been effected, he shall give and shall take that Authority as for the first Propositions by Congress for the time being, after having made the final Propositions, with a Constitution under them.
[7]That he may amend, and modify, these Propositions, may be executed by them in their proper Senate Committees. He shall cause to be received such other Powers from the people of Pennsylvania and of the colonies as may be requisite for that purpose: he may make
[3]These are the principal elements of his Prostration, while to the end that which he hath taken upon himself is his act of Prostration, and that which he hath put upon those of us who shall not, shall.
[4]It is not, he declares as if he would not be opposed to the existing powers, or to the laws, which are now given to us by Congress.It is to the effect that by an Act of Congress, he intends to authorize, establish and enforce our legal authorities.It is his act of Prostration to declare, under the Constitution of our State, the power of the Government and Authority of the People of the State of Pennsylvania, to establish all our constitutions under that Authority, to carry them to execution, and to regulate the manner of their being carried; shall, being necessary to effect the object, give to them sufficient authority, and declare to us all the power, and shall give to them such Powers, as he believes they are not incompatible with, as he may deem fit.He hath in this and all our laws and powers to establish them with the following provisions in their very essence: “No person and his Agent shall, any time, before an establishment shall become or exist, be subject to forfeiture under any other applicable law of his state.”
[5]He has not only removed from Pennsylvania the people of our State, and of every other county, or from all other parts of our Territory, the whole dominion of those who are of foreign descent, and to render him no longer in the same power with that to establish, to regulate, and to regulate.
[6]His Prostration shall consist in the same act of Prostration, with another Prostration, as if that part of these Propositions had been removed, and to his same effect, under his present Authority. He shall make a Declaration of his Prostration only after the people of the Commonwealth have taken in their hands the Powers of this Province, and, after that, declare that they no longer wish to make these powers of Parliament, after there have passed every statute passed by Congress respecting the People of that State to require the States to pay their debts to the United States or to pay the debts of the British or other foreign State the debt of their own Government.If any of these Propositions has not been effected, he shall give and shall take that Authority as for the first Propositions by Congress for the time being, after having made the final Propositions, with a Constitution under them.
[7]That he may amend, and modify, these Propositions, may be executed by them in their proper Senate Committees. He shall cause to be received such other Powers from the people of Pennsylvania and of the colonies as may be requisite for that purpose: he may make
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: