[tanvil]

''He has disolved Representitive Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected;
wereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise; the state remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasions from without, and convulsions within.''