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garrettwombat
06-21-2008, 07:26 PM
im working on a small project to show people..
please help me fill in the blanks with the laws, treaties, acts, or bureaucracies that match the description for present day 2008



He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. ______BLANK______

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.______BLANK______

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.______BLANK______

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.______BLANK______

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

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.______BLANK______

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.______BLANK______

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

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

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

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

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

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:______BLANK______

For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:______BLANK______

For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:______BLANK______

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:______BLANK______

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:______BLANK______

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:______BLANK______

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:______BLANK______

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______BLANK______

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:______BLANK______

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.______BLANK______

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.______BLANK______

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.______BLANK______

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat 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.______BLANK______

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.______BLANK______