He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
1. He has refused to approve necessary colonial laws.
2. He's forbidden the governors to approve necessary colonial laws
and delayed the passing of other laws
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.
3. In some districts he has refused to pass laws unless people gave
up their democratic rights.
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.
4. He has called legislative bodies together hastily and in unusual
places (so that they would give in to his demands).
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.
5. He has dissolved Legislatures for opposing him when he tried to
take away our rights.
6. After closing down our legislatures, he has refused to let us
elect a new one and our colonies were left unprotected.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others
to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation,
have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State
remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from
without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that
purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing
to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the
conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
7. He has tried to keep the colonies from growing by preventing
immigration and land ownership by immigrants. (Proclamation of
1763)