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551. ARMY, An unauthorized.—[continued].

He has combined with
others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign
to our constitutions, 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.—
Declaration of Independence as Drawn by Jefferson.