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Read the passage from the declaration of independence: 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: What does the technical phrase "subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution" mean?

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It means that the King has imposed laws on them way over from Britain, even though these laws are against the colony laws and against the colony constitution.
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