<P> For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever . </P> <P> He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us . </P> <P> He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people . </P> <P> He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat 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 of a civilized nation . </P>

Where did they write the declaration of independence