Reread an excerpt from a passage in the Declaration of Independence by
Thomas Jefferson.
"He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our
constitution 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;"
What thing is King George III not accused of doing in this excerpt?
exerting excessive taxes on the colonies
forcing the colonists to house English troops
imposing English laws on the colonies
protecting his troops from punishment for extreme crimes