A Citizen's Guide to Impeachment by Barbara Radnofsky

Author:Barbara Radnofsky
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Melville House
Published: 2017-09-12T04:00:00+00:00

• Refusing “to Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public Good.”

• Forbidding “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.”

• Refusing “to pass other Laws for the Accommodation of large Districts of People, unless those People would relinquish the Right of Representation in the Legislature, a Right inestimable to them, and formidable to Tyrants only.”

• Dissolving “Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly Firmness his Invasions on the Rights of the People.”

• Obstructing “the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.”

• Making “the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.”

• Making “Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the Tenure of their Offices, and the Amount and Payment of their Salaries.”

• Erecting a “Multitude of new Offices and sent hither Swarms of Officers to harass our People and eat out their Substance.”

• Cutting off U.S. “Trade with all Parts of the World.”

• Allowing others to make laws of “pretended Legislation” and “suspending” the colonial “Legislatures” that should be writing the laws.

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