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List of Grievances: 1–6

What are these grievances?

What does "public good" mean in the first grievance (copied below)?

"He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good."

The second grievance is a little complicated.

Which summary best describes this grievance (copied below)?

"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."

What does "relinquish" mean in the grievance listed below?

"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."

Which summary best describes the grievance listed below?

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.

What does "sole" mean in this grievance?

"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."

In the same quote as the last question (copied below), what does "fatiguing" mean?

"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."

One more question about that quote (below), what does "compliance" mean?

"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."

What does "dissolve" mean in this grievance?

"He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people."

The last grievance listed here is long.

Which summary describes it?

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.

What does "exposed" mean in this grievance??

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.

What does it mean that "the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation"?

What are you still unsure about in these first 6 grievances?