Sources and Documents Illustrating the American Revolution, 1764-1788, and the Formation of the Federal ConstitutionSamuel Eliot Morison |
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... Continental Congress , 1774 The Association . 20 October 1774 · · From John Adams's Novanglus , No. VII . January 1775 Franklin on the Galloway Plan and North Resolution , 1775 Letters of Joseph Warren to Arthur Lee , 1775 Declaration ...
... Continental Congress , 1774 The Association . 20 October 1774 · · From John Adams's Novanglus , No. VII . January 1775 Franklin on the Galloway Plan and North Resolution , 1775 Letters of Joseph Warren to Arthur Lee , 1775 Declaration ...
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... Continental Congress which , beginning as an extra - legal consultative body , developed into the federal government of an independent republic . As the Coercive Acts raised , constitutionally , no question of taxation , the ...
... Continental Congress which , beginning as an extra - legal consultative body , developed into the federal government of an independent republic . As the Coercive Acts raised , constitutionally , no question of taxation , the ...
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... Continental Congress found Wilson's doctrine too advanced . For a few days it played with Galloway's interest- ing Plan of Union ( p . 116 ) , then cast it aside as impracticable . The Declaration and Resolves passed by the Congress on ...
... Continental Congress found Wilson's doctrine too advanced . For a few days it played with Galloway's interest- ing Plan of Union ( p . 116 ) , then cast it aside as impracticable . The Declaration and Resolves passed by the Congress on ...
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... Continental Congress reassembled . It repre- sented all phases of colonial opinion except the out - and - out loyalists , who , owing to the drastic measures of local com- mittees , were now becoming fairly numerous . Congress adopted ...
... Continental Congress reassembled . It repre- sented all phases of colonial opinion except the out - and - out loyalists , who , owing to the drastic measures of local com- mittees , were now becoming fairly numerous . Congress adopted ...
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... congresses began to instruct their Continental delegates in that sense ( p . 146 ) . On 6 April Congress declared American commerce open to the world . In May , it instructed the colonies to form State governments ( p . 148 ) . South ...
... congresses began to instruct their Continental delegates in that sense ( p . 146 ) . On 6 April Congress declared American commerce open to the world . In May , it instructed the colonies to form State governments ( p . 148 ) . South ...
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