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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsva0412 and id is 1 raw text is: AN A1HE*DED .CONSTITUTIONv
FORM OF 0O V.ERNMENT FOR VIRGINIA.
EAdopted Januay 14b, 1830.]
Whereas the Delegates and Representatives of the good people
of Virginia, in Convention assembled, on the twenty-ninth day of
June, in the year of our Lord one thousand scven hundred and se-
venty-six: reciting and declaring, that whereas, Georg( the third,
King of Great Britain and Ireland, and Elector of Hanovur, before
that time entrusted with the exercise of the kingly office in the Go-
vernment of Virginia, had (udeavoured to pervert the Fame into a
detestable and insupportable tyranny, by putting his 'negative on
laws the most wholesome and necessary for the public good; by de-
nying his Governors permission to pass laws of immediate and
pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation for his as-
sent, and, when so suspended, neglecting to attend to them for many
years; by refusing to pass certain other laws, unless the persons to
be benefited by them would relinquish the inestimable right of re-
presentation in the Legislature; by dissolving Legislative Assem-
blies repeatedly and continually, for opposing with manly firmness
his invasions of the rights of the people; when dissolved, by refu-
sing to call others for a long space ot time, thereby leaving the po-
litical system without any legislative head; by endeavouring to pre-
vent the population of our country, and for that purpose obstructing
the laws for the naturalization of foreigners; by keeping among us,
in time of peace, standing armies and ships of war; by affecting to
render the military independent of, and superiour to, the'civil power;
by combining with others to subject us to a foreign jurisdiction,
giving his assent to their pretended acts of legislation, for quarter-
ing large bodies of armed troops among us, for cutting off our trade
with all parts of the world, for imposing taxes on us without our
consent, for depriving us of the benefits of the trial by jury, foi
transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended oflences, for
suspending our own 'Legislatures and declaring themselves invested
with power to legislate tor us in all cases whatsoever; by plundering
our seas, ravaging our coasts, burning our towns, and destroying the
lives of our people; by inciting insurrections of our fellow-subjects
with the allurements of forfeiture and confiscation; by prompting
our negroes to rise in arms among us, those very negroes, whom by.
an inhuman use of his negative he had refused us permission to ex-
clude by law; by endeavouring 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
of existence; by transporting hither a large army of foreign merco-
niaries, to complete the work of death, desolation and tyranny, then
already begun, with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy unworthy](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.slavery/ssactsva0412&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)