Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-07-05
(sEE EDITORIAL ON PAGE A4)

are instituted among Men, deriving their
just powers from the consent of the govern
ed, That whenever any Form of Government
becomes destructive of these ends, it is the
Right of the People to alter or to abolish 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, Prudence, indeed, will dictate
that Governments long established should
not be changed for light and transient
causes; and accordingly all experience hath
shown, that mankind are more disposed to
suffer, while evils are sufferabe, than to
right themselves by abolishing the forms to
which they are accustomed. But when a
long train of abuses and usurpations, pur-
suing invariably the same Object evinces a
design to reduce them under absolute
Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty,
to throw off such Government and to pro-
vide new Guards for their future security
Such has been the patient sufferance of
these Colonies; and such is now the neces-
sity which constrains them to alter their
former Systems of Government. The history
of the present King of Great Britain is a
history of repeated injuries and usurpations,
all having in direct object the establishment
of an absolute Tyranny over these States.
To prove this, let Facts be submitted to
candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the
most wholesome and necessary for the
public good.
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Laws of immediate and pressing importance,
unless suspended in their oppression till his
Assent should be obtained and when SO sus-
pended, he has utterly neglected to attend TO
them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for
the accommodation Of large districts of peo-
pie, unless those people would relinquish the
right of Representation in the Legislature,
right inestimable to them and formidable
to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies
at places unusual, uncomfortable and dis
tant from the depository of their Public
Records, for the sole purpose of fatguing
them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses
repeatedly, for opposing with manly firm
ness his invasions on the rights of the
people.
He has refused for long time, after
such dissolutions, to cause others to be
elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, in
capable of Annihilation, have returned to the
People at large for their exercise; the State
remaining in the meantime exposed to all
the dangers of invasion from without, and
convulsions within.
He has endeavored TO prevent the popu-
laton of these States; for that purpose OBJ
structing the Laws Of Naturalization of
Foreigners; refusing to pass others to en-
courage their migration hither, and raising
the conditions of new Appropriations Of
Lands.
He has INSTRUCTED the Administration of
Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for
establishing Judiciary Powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his
win alone. for the tenure of their offices,
and the amount and payment of their sal
aries.
He has erected multitude of New or
fees, and sent hither swarms of Officers to