Sources and Documents Illustrating the American Revolution, 1764-1788, and the Formation of the Federal ConstitutionSamuel Eliot Morison |
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... 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 , 1754-65 , and E. I. McCormac ...
... 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 , 1754-65 , and E. I. McCormac ...
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... body , developed into the federal government of an independent republic . As the Coercive Acts raised , constitutionally , no question of taxation , the distinctions of the Pennsylvania Farmer became obsolete . To meet this situation ...
... body , developed into the federal government of an independent republic . As the Coercive Acts raised , constitutionally , no question of taxation , the distinctions of the Pennsylvania Farmer became obsolete . To meet this situation ...
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... bodies , which assumed legislative and executive authority in each colony after the royal governors had dissolved the colonial assemblies , followed the recommendation of 15 May 1776 by the Continental Congress ( p . 148 ) , drafted ...
... bodies , which assumed legislative and executive authority in each colony after the royal governors had dissolved the colonial assemblies , followed the recommendation of 15 May 1776 by the Continental Congress ( p . 148 ) , drafted ...
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... bodies to roll round their axes , dance their orbits and perform their various revolutions in that beautiful order and concert , which we all admire , has made it equally necessary that from Adam and Eve to these degenerate days , the ...
... bodies to roll round their axes , dance their orbits and perform their various revolutions in that beautiful order and concert , which we all admire , has made it equally necessary that from Adam and Eve to these degenerate days , the ...
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... body ; but as this has never seriously been proposed , I shall not here consider the impracticability of this method , nor the effects of it if it could be practised ; but only say that I have lately seen so many specimens of the great ...
... body ; but as this has never seriously been proposed , I shall not here consider the impracticability of this method , nor the effects of it if it could be practised ; but only say that I have lately seen so many specimens of the great ...
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