他竭力抑制我们各州增加人口;为此目的,他阻挠外国人入籍法的通过,拒绝批准其它鼓励外国人移居各州的法律,并提高分配新土地的条件。
he has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
他拒绝批准建立司法权力的法律,藉以阻挠司法工作的推行。
he has made Judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
他把法官的任期、薪金数额和支付,完全置于他个人意志的支配之下。
he has erected a multitude of New offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.
他建立新官署,派遣大批官员,骚扰我们人民,并耗尽人民必要的生活物质。
he has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the consent of our legislatures.
他在和平时期,未经我们的立法机关同意,就在我们中间维持常备军。
he has affected to render the military independent of and superior to the civil power.
他力图使军队独立于民政之外,并凌驾于民政之上。
he has bined 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:
他同某些人勾结起来把我们置于一种不适合我们的体制且不为我们的法律所承认的管辖之下;他还批准那些人炮制的各种伪法案来达到以下目的:
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
在我们中间驻扎大批武装部队;
For protecting them, by a mock trial, from punishment for any murders which they should mit on the Inhabitants of these States:
用假审讯来包庇他们,使他们杀害我们各州居民而仍然逍遥法外;
For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world:
切断我们同世界各地的贸易;
For imposing taxes on us without our consent:
未经我们同意便向我们强行征税;
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of trial by Jury:
在许多案件中剥夺我们享有陪审制的权益;
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
罗织罪名押送我们到海外去受审;
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:
在一个邻省废除英国的自由法制,在那里建立专制政府,并扩大该省的疆界,企图把该省变成既是一个样板又是一个得心应手的工具,以便进而向这里的各殖民地推行同样的极权统治;
For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our Governments:
取消我们的宪章,废除我们最宝贵的法律,并且根本上改变我们各州政府的形式;
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
中止我们自己的立法机关行使权力,宣称他们自己有权就一切事宜为我们制定法律。
he has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his protection and waging war against us.
他宣布我们已不属他保护之列,并对我们作战,从而放弃了在这里的政务。
he has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the Lives of our people.