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4) He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance. He has kept among us, in times of_______, Standing ArmieswithouttheConsentofourlegislatures. HehasaffectedtorendertheMilitaryindepen- dent of and superior to the Civil power.
5) He has refused his _______ 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 ________ should be obtained; and when so sus- pended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
7) Amendment X: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the ______ respectively, or to the people.
10) For cutting off our ______ with all parts of the world: For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
12) Amendment VIII: Excessive bail shall not be required, nor _________ fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
14) Amendment VI: In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an ______ jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.
17) For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an ex- ample and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies: For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: For ________ our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
19) We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connec- tion between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred ______.
20) He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstruct- ing the Laws for ____________ of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migra- tions hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
23) The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to_______ the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the sepa- rate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
24) Amendment IV: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, ______, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly de- scribing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
25) The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usur- pations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let _____ be submitted to a candid world.
26) He has combined with others 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 Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: For protecting them, by a ____ _____, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
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1) He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to _______ 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 ofacivilizednation. HehasconstrainedourfellowCitizenstakenCaptiveonthehighSeasto bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
2) He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions. In every stage of these Oppres- sions We have Petitioned for ________ in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
3) Amendment III: No soldier shall, in time of peace be __________ in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
6) We hold these truths to be ___-______, that all men are created equal, that they are en- dowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abol- ish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
8) 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 in- estimable to them and formidable to ________ 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.
9) Amendment VII: In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed ______ ______, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise reexamined in any court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.
11) Amendment I: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of ______, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
13) Amendment II: A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a ____ state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
15) Amendment V: No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a _____ ____, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
16) Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. 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 _______ and of con- sanguinity. 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.
18) _________, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that man- kind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolish- ing the forms to which they are accustomed.
19) He has dissolved Representative _________ repeatedly, for opposing with manly firm- nesshisinvasionsontherightsofthepeople. Hehasrefusedforalongtime,aftersuchdissolu- tions, 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.
21) Amendment IX: The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be con- strued to deny or disparage others retained by the ______.
22) But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute _________, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.
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