The Updated Declaration of Intolerable Acts
he history of the self styled King of the United States of America 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.
He has refused to enforce the laws duly passed by the People through Congress and instead chosen which he would enforce and which he would not, or which he would change to his own benefit
He has sued the Governors of States when they passed laws of immediate and pressing importance to the People of that State and prevented these govenors from carrying out the Peoples business.
He has refused to meet with lawmakers unless he has a guarantee that the Will of the people they represent will be submerged to his own forcing those people to relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has refused to protect our borders and invited all manner of murderers thieves and terrorists into the country and further forced the People of the United States to support the very people who intend to harm them.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
He has combined with other nations and the United Nations to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent by concealing those taxes in reams of unimportant legislation.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign immigrant 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.
He has divided the people and excited domestic insurrections amongst us.
He has seized the education of children indoctrinating them instead of educating them.
He has directed his forces to harass our Citizens in the form of their worship.
We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends
