linquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
paragraph 7: He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
paragraph 26: He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
paragraph 28: He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.