DIRECTIONS: Write a more modern word or phrase to replace the underlined word in each sentence below.
1. He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.
2. For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighboring province, establishing therein an arbitrary government . . .
3. . . . and that as free and independent states, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace . . .
