 He's kept among us in times of peace standing armies without the consent of our legislatures. He is affected to render the military independent of and superior to the civil power. He is combined with others to subject us to jurisdiction foreign to our Constitution and unacknowledged by our laws, giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation. So in the king's mind and based on watching the John Adams miniseries and everything, which is really great, royal troops can pretty much do whatever they wanted, couldn't they?