Sources and Documents Illustrating the American Revolution, 1764-1788, and the Formation of the Federal ConstitutionSamuel Eliot Morison |
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... opinion . A large part of the book is devoted to the six years after the war , when the Revolution was logically completed by the Federal Constitution . Military and diplomatic subjects have been excluded , because it is the Revolution ...
... opinion . A large part of the book is devoted to the six years after the war , when the Revolution was logically completed by the Federal Constitution . Military and diplomatic subjects have been excluded , because it is the Revolution ...
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... opinion had been fairly mobilized against the Revenue Act , Parliament passed the Stamp Act.1 This law extended to the colonies , where social conditions made stamp duties particularly onerous , 2 a system long prevalent in England ...
... opinion had been fairly mobilized against the Revenue Act , Parliament passed the Stamp Act.1 This law extended to the colonies , where social conditions made stamp duties particularly onerous , 2 a system long prevalent in England ...
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... opinion was united against the Stamp Act as on no issue before or since . Royal officials were powerless to enforce it , and the new Rockingham ministry had it repealed . At the same time the Declaratory Act of 17662 was passed ...
... opinion was united against the Stamp Act as on no issue before or since . Royal officials were powerless to enforce it , and the new Rockingham ministry had it repealed . At the same time the Declaratory Act of 17662 was passed ...
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... opinion , strengthening the die - hard ' element in Cabinet and Parliament , and pro- ducing an unwise attempt at punishment and cure . The Coercive Acts , as they were called in America , included the Boston Port Act , the ...
... opinion , strengthening the die - hard ' element in Cabinet and Parliament , and pro- ducing an unwise attempt at punishment and cure . The Coercive Acts , as they were called in America , included the Boston Port Act , the ...
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... opinion , one should read the debates in the House of Commons from 20 January to 1 February 1775 , on the motion to withdraw the troops from Boston , on the petitions of English merchants against the Coercive Acts , and on Chatham's ...
... opinion , one should read the debates in the House of Commons from 20 January to 1 February 1775 , on the motion to withdraw the troops from Boston , on the petitions of English merchants against the Coercive Acts , and on Chatham's ...
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