Thomas Jefferson Papers

for abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighboring province, establishing therein an arbitrary government, & enlarging it's boundaries, so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these states;

for taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, & altering fundamentally the forms of our governments;

for suspending our own legislatures & declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

he has abdicated government here, withdrawing his governors, & declaring us out of his [ . . . ]