Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1 by Thomas Jefferson
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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 [_and continually_] for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. 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 endeavored 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. He has [_suffered_] (obstructed) the administration of justice [_totally to cease in some of these states_] (by) refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers. He has made [_our_] judges dependant on his will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of new offices, [_by a self-assumed power_] and sent hither swarms of new officers to harass our people and eat out their substance. |
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