What are five complaints against the king in the declaration of independence?

Answer 1

1. He did not pass laws that helped the colonists

2. Forced people to quarter soldiers in their house

3. Taxation without representation

4. He did not allow jury trials

5. He has said he will not protect colonists in face of danger

Answer 2

All of the grievances against King George III are as follows:

He has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

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.

He has refused 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.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

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.

He has endeavoured(sic) 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.

He has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers.

He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies without the consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the military independent of and superior to the civil power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation:

-For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

-For protecting them, by a mock trial, from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states:

-For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world:

-For imposing taxes on us without our consent:

-For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury:

-For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offences

-For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring province, establishing therein an arbitrary government, and enlarging its boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these colonies:

-For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our governments:

-For suspending our own legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his protection and waging war against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign mercenaries to compleat(sic) the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow citizens taken captive on the high seas to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured(sic) to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Answer 3

* He changed the way the colonies were governed * He forced the colonists to keep his troops in their houses * He has not passed laws that help the colonists * He has taxed the colonists without their consent * He does not allow the colonists to trade with any other country * He does not allow the colonists to have a jury by trial * He has made war upon the colonists and the land

Answer 4

There are a total of 27 grievances (18 separate and 9 listed as one section):

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1) He has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

2) 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.

3) He has refused 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.

4) He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

5) He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

6) 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.

7) He has endeavoured (sic) 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.

8) He has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers.

9) He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

10) He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.

11) He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies without the consent of our legislatures.

12) He has affected to render the military independent of and superior to the civil power.

13) He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation:

- For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

- For protecting them, by a mock trial, from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states:

- For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world:

- For imposing taxes on us without our consent:

- For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury:

- For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offences

- For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring province, establishing therein an arbitrary government, and enlarging its boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these colonies:

- For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our governments:

- For suspending our own legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

14) He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his protection and waging war against us.

15) He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

16) He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign mercenaries to compleat(sic) the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation.

17) He has constrained our fellow citizens taken captive on the high seas to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.

18) He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured (sic) to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

19) In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Answer 5

They were mad because the King left them alone for many years and suddenly came over and taxed them saying that he should get money from protecting them in the Indian and British War. But the colonists were mad because they had more taxes to pay then the British people because not only for their own affairs but also for running their own country they were also mad because in the middle ages the law says that no English Gentlemen could be taxed without representation in which they didn't have and even though they lived in America is still means your an English gentlemen because an English Gentlemen is a person who has lots of money and is in a higher rank.

Answer 6

American colonists were unhappy with British rule for a number of reasons, the most important of which included the following:

• Parliament passed laws that the colonists considered unjust.
• The colonists had no direct representation in Parliament.
• The colonists were unable to sell products to any country except Britain.
• To force colonists to buy English products, Parliament placed high taxes on French and Dutch goods.
• Parliament expected the colonists to help pay the costs of the French and Indian War.

Answer 7

He taxed the colonies without their consent, kept soldiers there even in times of peace, and captured colonists out at sea and forced them to fight for Britain.

Answer 8

They complained that he cut trade with the world, taxes, and he deprived peopole of a trial by Jury............ = ]

Answer 9

They are listed in the Declaration of Independence and take up over a page. I suggest you read it.