<Tr> <Td> <H3> Virginia, June 12, 1776 (edit) </H3> <P> Virginia's Constitution lists the reasons for dissolving its ties with the King in the formation of its own independent state government . Including the following: </P> <Ul> <Li> Keeping among us, in times of peace, standing armies and ships of war . </Li> </Ul> <Ul> <Li> Effecting to render the military independent of, and superior to, the civil power . </Li> </Ul> <P> * These same reasons would later be outlined within the Declaration of Independence . </P> <P> A Declaration of Rights . Section 13 . That a well - regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper, natural, and safe defence of a free State; that standing armies, in time of peace, should be avoided, as dangerous to liberty; and that in all cases the military should be under strict subordination to, and governed by, the civil power . </P> </Td> </Tr> <P> Virginia's Constitution lists the reasons for dissolving its ties with the King in the formation of its own independent state government . Including the following: </P> <Ul> <Li> Keeping among us, in times of peace, standing armies and ships of war . </Li> </Ul> <Li> Keeping among us, in times of peace, standing armies and ships of war . </Li>

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