Sources and Documents Illustrating the American Revolution, 1764-1788, and the Formation of the Federal ConstitutionSamuel Eliot Morison |
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... authority on American history . C. H. Van Tyne's Causes of the War of Independence ( Houghton , Mifflin , and Constable , 1922 , 499 pp . ) presents the results of important research during the last decade . Sir G. O. Trevelyan's ...
... authority on American history . C. H. Van Tyne's Causes of the War of Independence ( Houghton , Mifflin , and Constable , 1922 , 499 pp . ) presents the results of important research during the last decade . Sir G. O. Trevelyan's ...
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... authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies in all cases whatsoever ' . This was barely noticed in the colonies , and the Revenue Act was forgotten ; the repeal of the Stamp Act seemed ...
... authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies in all cases whatsoever ' . This was barely noticed in the colonies , and the Revenue Act was forgotten ; the repeal of the Stamp Act seemed ...
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... authority , imperial , federal , or local ; or should the Indians be left to the mercy of the traders ? ( d ) The public land problem . How should land acquired from the Indians be disposed of , and by what authority ? ( e ) The ...
... authority , imperial , federal , or local ; or should the Indians be left to the mercy of the traders ? ( d ) The public land problem . How should land acquired from the Indians be disposed of , and by what authority ? ( e ) The ...
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... authority to make it respected by the frontiersmen . No important treaty between North American Indians and colonial , imperial , or federal authorities has been much more than a truce , or a death warrant for the Indians . Their ...
... authority to make it respected by the frontiersmen . No important treaty between North American Indians and colonial , imperial , or federal authorities has been much more than a truce , or a death warrant for the Indians . Their ...
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... Authority of the British Parliament ( p . 104 ) by James Wilson , a Scots 1 Channing , iii . 128-30 , and Schlesinger , Colonial Merchants , 262 ff . 14 Geo . III , c . 19 , 39 , 45 , 54. Cf. Introduction , part II , on Quebec 2 Act . 3 ...
... Authority of the British Parliament ( p . 104 ) by James Wilson , a Scots 1 Channing , iii . 128-30 , and Schlesinger , Colonial Merchants , 262 ff . 14 Geo . III , c . 19 , 39 , 45 , 54. Cf. Introduction , part II , on Quebec 2 Act . 3 ...
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