Category: rated-4
Question #6
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."
Question #3
What does "consent" mean in the same quote (copied below)?
"…deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed"
Question #7
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."
Question #4
The Americans wrote "such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government". What does "constrains" mean in this context?
Question #8
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."
Question #5
In the same quote (below), what does "alter" mean?
"such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government"
Question #9
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."