Grievance Card Sort

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The king must approve all laws, which he has not done in a timely manner.

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“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.”

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The Legislatures are meeting far from their usual places, to make them bend to the will of the king.

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“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.”

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If a Legislature stands up to the king, they are shut down or dismissed.

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“He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.”

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The king will not let the colonies establish their own courts.

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“He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.”

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The king decides when to fire a judge, the length of their term, and what they are paid.

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

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

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The king has sent more of his people, in new jobs, to bother the colonists and consume their resources.

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

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The king’s army is in the colonies even though there is no war going on, and the colonial legislatures did not approve its presence.

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

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The military is more powerful and has more say than the colonial governments.

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He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

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The king is sending hired military to the colonies to do his dirty work. No mercy is being shown, cruel and unusual punishment is used.

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He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

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Colonists are being captured and impressed (forced) into the British Navy.