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can someone please tell me 4 grievances in the declaration of independence

2007-11-08 14:14:10 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities History

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They are spelled out in the main section of the Declaration -- a paragraph each. Here's the first five (look at the link below to see the rest):

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.

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.

http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/\

If you are looking for some short, clear ones, here's a set from a little further down that might work:

For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

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

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

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

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

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

(All together I count 26 in the list, in three sets [12, 9, 5])

2007-11-08 15:02:55 · answer #1 · answered by bruhaha 7 · 0 0

High rate of taxes, slavery, disunity and lack of experience in running a government were some of the grievances in the declaration of independence.

2016-04-03 03:05:05 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

Four grievances that come to mind were the charges that the British king or authorities often deprived people without the right to trial by jury, the British king hired foreign mercenaries to deprive the colonists of their rights, quartered troops in colonists homes without their permission, and disbanded local colonial legislative bodies when they did not agree or support British royal policies.

2007-11-08 14:40:38 · answer #3 · answered by mohacs1 3 · 0 0

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