Selected excerpts from the Declaration of Independence

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world ​ For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offenses

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury

For taking away our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments

He has endeavored to … obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people

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

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

He is at this time transporting large Armies to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages

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

Whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.