Section+2+What+did+the+colonists+accuse+the+British+of+doing?+PDJ

 =What did the colonists accuse the British of doing? =  Origins of the Accusations from America

The colonists started to accuse the British way before the Declaration of Independence was written. Because of the several tax acts that the British was passing in the colonies after the Seven Year’s War, the colonists, one by one, started to become angry at Great Britain. Mostly of what Great Britain was doing was trying to eat up all the profit from the colonies in order to benefit their own country. This was done by collecting tremendous amount of tax from products that were being sold and bought from the colonies. Also, because of the small rebellious movements that the colonists were making, Great Britain had to to restrict the colonies from doing certain actions such as trading in the port of Boston or having town hall meetings. Because most of the colonists were angered, each representatives from the colonies gathered together to form a documentation called the Declaration of Independence in 1776. This declaration was mostly important because it stated all the points that the colonists wanted to accuse the British of doing. The Declaration of Independence granted the colonists from being independent from the rule of Great Britain.

Most of the accusations from the Declaration of Independence can be divided into several categories.

From the Declaration of Independence


 * //System of Law Accusation //**

- 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.


 * //Governmental Accusation //**

-  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 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.

//**Judicial Accusation **//

-  He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

- <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

- <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

//**<span style="color: #c20000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 150%;">System of Military/Army Accusation **//

- <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

- <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.

- <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> 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:

<span style="color: #c20000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 150%;">//**Societal Accusation**//

- <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

- <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:


 * //<span style="color: #c20000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 150%;">Economical Accusation //**

- <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

- <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

- <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:

- <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

<span style="color: #c20000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 150%;">//**General Accusation**//

- <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies

- <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

- <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> For suspending our own Legislature, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

- <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

- <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

- <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> 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 & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

- <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> 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.

- <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.