Sources and Documents Illustrating the American Revolution, 1764-1788, and the Formation of the Federal ConstitutionSamuel Eliot Morison |
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... Britain , briefly consider'd , 1765 From Daniel Dulany's Considerations on the Propriety of imposing Taxes in the British Colonies . • Parliament , 1765 . 18 • by Act of . • 24 32 • 34 Resolutions of the Stamp Act Congress , 19 October ...
... Britain , briefly consider'd , 1765 From Daniel Dulany's Considerations on the Propriety of imposing Taxes in the British Colonies . • Parliament , 1765 . 18 • by Act of . • 24 32 • 34 Resolutions of the Stamp Act Congress , 19 October ...
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... Britain , and to strengthen such as existed . It was a part of the struggle between centralization and localism ... Parliament should control imperial commerce , so long as it permitted them to prosper ; and they had no criticism of ...
... Britain , and to strengthen such as existed . It was a part of the struggle between centralization and localism ... Parliament should control imperial commerce , so long as it permitted them to prosper ; and they had no criticism of ...
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... Parliament was the proper body to regulate the trade of the entire empire . Nor is it true that the prohibition of direct trade with continental Europe had been complained 1 This is argued in G. L. Beer , British Colonial Policy , 1754 ...
... Parliament was the proper body to regulate the trade of the entire empire . Nor is it true that the prohibition of direct trade with continental Europe had been complained 1 This is argued in G. L. Beer , British Colonial Policy , 1754 ...
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... Parliament ' , wrote James Otis ' has set people a - thinking , in six months , more than they had done in their whole lives before . ' His pamphlet , The Rights of the British Colonies , is the first of numerous attempts by colonial ...
... Parliament ' , wrote James Otis ' has set people a - thinking , in six months , more than they had done in their whole lives before . ' His pamphlet , The Rights of the British Colonies , is the first of numerous attempts by colonial ...
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... Parliament ' have full power and authority to make laws and statutes of ... Parliament returned to the policy tentatively begun in 1764 , that of raising a ... British manufactures , land on tea , when entering the colonies . The moneys ...
... Parliament ' have full power and authority to make laws and statutes of ... Parliament returned to the policy tentatively begun in 1764 , that of raising a ... British manufactures , land on tea , when entering the colonies . The moneys ...
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