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Declaration of Independence (excerpts) -1776

The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

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(1) 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.

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

(3) 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.

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Explain in your own words one of the three grievances from the Declaration of Independence that is listed above.

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Tyrants, in general, are good people. They respect their citizens. The first grievance says that the king couldn't figure out what the large group of people wanted. He wanted them to represent themselves but they kept giving it up.

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