Sources and Documents Illustrating the American Revolution, 1764-1788: And the Formation of the Federal ConstitutionSamuel Eliot Morison |
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... English colonies from the foreign West Indies , had never been enforced ; and one of the principal objections to the Revenue Act was its imposition of a lower but still onerous duty on such molasses.1 ' The Act of Navigation is a good ...
... English colonies from the foreign West Indies , had never been enforced ; and one of the principal objections to the Revenue Act was its imposition of a lower but still onerous duty on such molasses.1 ' The Act of Navigation is a good ...
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... colonies are intitled to all the inherent rights and liberties of his natural born subjects within the kingdom of ... British Constitution , for the people of Great Britain to grant to His Majesty the property of the colonists . VII . That ...
... colonies are intitled to all the inherent rights and liberties of his natural born subjects within the kingdom of ... British Constitution , for the people of Great Britain to grant to His Majesty the property of the colonists . VII . That ...
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... Britain , the acquisi- tion is greatly injurious to these colonies . Our chief property consists in lands . These would have been of much greater value , if such prodigious additions had not been made to the British territories on this ...
... Britain , the acquisi- tion is greatly injurious to these colonies . Our chief property consists in lands . These would have been of much greater value , if such prodigious additions had not been made to the British territories on this ...
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