Excerpt from The Revised Code of Laws of Illinois: Enacted by the Fifth General Assembly, at Their Session Held at Vandalia, Commencing on the Fourth Day of December, 1826, and Ending the Nineteenth of February, 1827; Published in Pursuance of Law
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 ia rasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners; re fusing to pass others, to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands.
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