King George III

            "This history of the present king of Great Britain is a history of an absolute tyranny over these states." (Assignment sheet) Repeatedly King George III made decisions to limit the power of the American colonies, and maximize the amount of control that Great Britain held over its seemingly feeble American brethren. King George committed many injustices against the American colonists such as his tendency to tax the colonies punitively without any type of actual representation (The Declaration of Independence); his consent to the policy of Salutary Neglect; and then his dissolution of state assemblies every time he perceived the colonies to be wrong, (The Declaration of Independence) and finally his allowance of British soldiers to quarter themselves in any colonists house, no matter if it was war or peacetime. (The Declaration of Independence) All of these injustices had happened to the American colonists many times, and demonstrate that through "Repeated injuries, and Usurpation- (assignment sheet) King George III has been a disgrace to the crown, and bad ruler of the colonies.
             King George III's actions in time of war and peace have been well documented by the framers of the Declaration of Independence. His many transgressions had been carefully outlined in the language of the twenty-seven injustices that have been outlined in the Declaration itself. (The Declaration of Independence) One of the first of the transgressions outlined in the Declaration is one about taxation without actual representation. In Great Britain, there were two main offices of government, the crown (George himself) and parliament (an early congress). Since the colonies were being run under a type of mercantilistic government, King George thought it reasonable to tax the citizens on many of the items that they needed for daily life. (Apstudent.com) The government exercised control over the types of industry and trade that the colonists conducted with the idea that national strength and economic safety would come from exporting more than would be imported.