CHAPTER+2.+What+did+the+colonists+accuse+the+British+of+doing?

 CHAPTER 2. What did the colonists accuse the British of doing?

 What is the best historical source where American patriots listed "a history of injuries and usurpations" designed to establish "an absolute Tyranny over these states"? **The Declaration of Independence!**

__// From the Declaration of Independence: //__What specific abuses did the American delegates cite?
King George III and the English Parliament did not approved the laws that the Americans and their assemblies made.
 * **"He has refused his Assent to Laws necessary for the public good.** **He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of pressing importance.****"**

The English governors neglected the will of colonial legislatures and forced the the colonial legislatures to obey their orders. Protests and disobeying resulted in forceful break up in the colonial legislature.
 * **"He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly."**

The English governors postponed repeatedly the elections of new colonial assemblies.
 * **"He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected."**

King George III spurned the formation of a court system in North Carolina.
 * **"He has obstructed the Administration of justice."**

King George III believed that judges existed for his own pleasure and made judges by himself although it was not fair.
 * **"He has made judges dependent on his Will alone.”**

The English government sent us tax commissioners and other officials for their own benefit.
 * **"He has erected a multitude of New Offices to harass our people."**

Without the agreement of the colonies, the English government left their army in the colonies despite the end of the war.
 * **"He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies."** ... **"For quartering armed troops among us."**

The English government made the Declaratory Act of 1766 to underscore their unjust right of making all laws for the colonies.
 * **"He has subject[ed] us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution."**

The English Parliament passed a law that allowed British people accused of murder to have a unfair trial in Britain.
 * **"For protecting them from punishment for Murders."**

The English government attempted to prohibit the colonies from trading with other foreign countries.
 * **"For cutting off our Trade."**

The English government levied taxes although the colonies strongly went against it.
 * **"For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent."**

When colonists were caught of smuggling or violations of other laws, the English government did not allow them to have a fair trial with juries.
 * **"For depriving us of the benefits of Trial by Jury."**

The English Parliament prohibited town meetings in Massachusetts, decided to appoint the colony's councilors, and gave the King the control of lower court judges of the colonies.
 * **"For taking away our Charters."**

The English Parliament dissolved the New York Assembly for not obeying the Quartering Act.
 * **"For suspending our Legislatures."**

King George III gave power to General Thomas Gage so that he could force the colonists obey the English Laws.
 * **"waging War against us"**

The English government forcefully overran the American ships that violated the English trade laws.
 * **"He has plundered our seas...burnt our towns."**

German mercenaries were hired by the English government to fight against the colonies.
 * **"He is...transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries.”**