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What does this passage mean from the Declaration of Independence- "He had kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures"

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the British kept their soldiers in the colonies and ordered them house the soldiers too. the colonists had no say in this matter, which is why it was listed as a grievance in the D.O.I
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