Introduction [1] THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE [2] WE hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men [3] HE has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome [4] HE has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of [5] HE has refused to pass other Laws for the Accomodation [6] HE has called together Legislative Bodies at Places [7] HE has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, [8] HE has refused for a long Time, after such Dissolution [9] HE has endeavoured to prevent the Population of these [10] HE has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by [11] HE has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for [12] HE has erected a Multitude of new Offices, and sent [13] HE has kept among us, in Times of Peace, Standing [14] HE has affected to render the Military independent of [15] HE has combined with others to subject us to a [16] FOR quartering large Bodies of Armed Troops among us: [17] FOR protecting them, by a mock Trial, from Punishment [18] FOR cutting off our Trade with all Parts of the [19] FOR imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: [20] FOR depriving us, in many Cases, of the Benefits of [21] FOR transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for [22] FOR abolishing the free System of English Laws in a [23] FOR taking away our Charters, abolishing our most [24] FOR suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring [25] HE has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out [26] HE has plundered our Seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt [27] HE is, at this Time, transporting large Armies of [28] HE has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive [29] HE has excited domestic Insurrections amongst us, and [30] IN every stage of these Oppressions we have Petitioned[31] NOR have we been wanting in Attentions to our British [32] WE, therefore, the Representatives of the UNITED [32] WE, therefore, the Representatives of the UNITED [33] SUMMARY
