Sources and Documents Illustrating the American Revolution, 1764-1788, and the Formation of the Federal ConstitutionSamuel Eliot Morison |
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... Colonies by the Legislature of Great 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 ...
... Colonies by the Legislature of Great 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 ...
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... colonies had been pushing toward a larger measure of self- government , as indeed the dominions have done in the last century . Then came an attempt to check this evolution ; to create new institutional bonds between the colonies and ...
... colonies had been pushing toward a larger measure of self- government , as indeed the dominions have done in the last century . Then came an attempt to check this evolution ; to create new institutional bonds between the colonies and ...
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... colonies to an imperial war ; and it depended entirely on future events whether England or the Thirteen Colonies would get the most out of Canada and the Floridas . " } As early as 1762 the Newcastle ministry decided to retain in the ...
... colonies to an imperial war ; and it depended entirely on future events whether England or the Thirteen Colonies would get the most out of Canada and the Floridas . " } As early as 1762 the Newcastle ministry decided to retain in the ...
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... colonies ? ' We 6 As yet few persons had cared to look into the constitutional relationship between colonies and mother country . It would have been better for imperial unity had none but humorists done so . But the Revenue Act taught ...
... colonies ? ' We 6 As yet few persons had cared to look into the constitutional relationship between colonies and mother country . It would have been better for imperial unity had none but humorists done so . But the Revenue Act taught ...
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... colonies , where social conditions made stamp duties particularly onerous , 2 a system long prevalent in England . Stamp duties , in sterling , were required on all legal documents , on newspapers , pamphlets , and almanacs , playing ...
... colonies , where social conditions made stamp duties particularly onerous , 2 a system long prevalent in England . Stamp duties , in sterling , were required on all legal documents , on newspapers , pamphlets , and almanacs , playing ...
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