There follows first a general and then a particular condemnation of the King of England. This is the longest section of the Declaration. It is the section no one bothers to read; the statute of limitations has by this time outlawed our bill of complaint against George the Third. But the grievances of the Colonials were not high-pitched trifles; every complaint rises out of a definite desire to live under a decent government; and the whole list is like a picture, seen in negative, of the actual government the Colonists intended to set up; and the basic habits of American life, its great traditions, its good fortune and its deficiencies are all foreshadowed in this middle section. Here--for the sake of completeness--is the section: "_He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good._ "_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 them._ "_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._ "_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._ "_He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people._ "_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 meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within._ Here I omit one "count", reserved for separate consideration. "_He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers._ "_He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries._ "_He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance._ "_He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies, without the Consent of our legislatures._ "_He has affected to render the Military Independent of and superior to the Civil power._