27 Indictments of King George III Applied to World Leaders Today
This is a listing of the 27 indictments of King George III from the third section of The Declaration of Independence, In Congress, July 4, 1776.
Find the complete verbiage in the Declaration of Independence, page 189– 193 of: How to Save the Constitution; Restoring the Principles of Liberty, by Paul B. & W. Cleon Skousen.
In the exercise below, apply the indictments to world leaders today and why their citizens leave their homeland for the USA.
King George III has:
1 Refused his Assent to Laws for the public good.
2 Forbidden his Governors to pass needed laws.
3 Refused large districts laws for & representation in the Legislature.
4 Called Legislative bodies to places far from their public records to fatigue them into compliance.
5 Repeatedly dissolved Representative Houses.
6 Obstructed laws for Naturalization of Foreigners & their Appropriation of Land.
7 Refused Laws establishing Judiciary Powers.
8 Made Judges dependent on his Will alone.
9 Erected a multitude of New Offices to harass us.
10 In peace times kept among us Standing Armies without consent of our legislatures.
11 Tried to render the Military independent of & superior to Civil power.
12 Subjected us to foreign jurisdiction, giving his assent FOR:
13 Quartering armed troops with us;
14 Protecting them from punishment for murder;
15 Cutting off our Trade with the world;
16 Imposing Taxes on us without our consent;
17 Depriving us, in many cases, of trial by jury;
18 Transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offenses;
19 Abolishing English Law; introducing absolute rule into these colonies.
20 Taking away our Charters & Laws & altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments;
21 Suspending our Legislatures; declaring themselves vested with power to legislate for us.
22 He has abdicated Government here by declaring us out of his Protection & waging war on us;
23 He has Plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, & destroyed our people’s lives.
24 He is transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, & tyranny.
25 He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high seas to bear arms against us.
26 He has incited domestic insurrections among us.
27 At every stage of these Oppression’s, we have Petitioned for Redress, in humble terms, to no avail.
We have warned our British brethren that we disavow usurpation, which, inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They, too, have been deaf to the voice of justice and consanguinity.