<P> A bill of particulars documenting the king's "repeated injuries and usurpations" of the Americans' rights and liberties . </P> <P> Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity 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 a candid world . </P> <P> He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good . </P> <P> He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them . </P>

What powers did the new government claim as free and independent states