<P> 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 . </P> <P> He has endeavoured 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 . </P> <P> He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers . </P> <P> He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries . </P>

The declaration of independence claimed that the king has abdicated his right