History of the American Revolution: With a Preliminary View of the Character and Principles of the Colonists, and Their Controversies with Great BritainN. Hickman, 1834 - 372 pages |
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... Legislature - New Cabinet Page 39 in England - Scheme of Taxing America revived - Other Bills adopted - Tea Act passed 1767 - Excitement in America - Sloop Liberty - Disturbances in Boston- Convention in Massachusetts - Changes in the ...
... Legislature - New Cabinet Page 39 in England - Scheme of Taxing America revived - Other Bills adopted - Tea Act passed 1767 - Excitement in America - Sloop Liberty - Disturbances in Boston- Convention in Massachusetts - Changes in the ...
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... legislatures and the lords proprietaries ,. or the royal governors . Community of language and litera- ture added new force to these ties ; and , what was subse- quently complained of as a great grievance , the close intimacy of ...
... legislatures and the lords proprietaries ,. or the royal governors . Community of language and litera- ture added new force to these ties ; and , what was subse- quently complained of as a great grievance , the close intimacy of ...
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... legislature , in the spirit and on the principles that afterwards produced the revolution . They told him that the magistrates were responsible to them , and bound only by the laws of the colony of Massachusetts , and that the acts of ...
... legislature , in the spirit and on the principles that afterwards produced the revolution . They told him that the magistrates were responsible to them , and bound only by the laws of the colony of Massachusetts , and that the acts of ...
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... legislatures held the same relation to the king as the English House of Commons , and were as absolute in all matters of revenue , within the provinces , as the Commons were for Great Britain . These rights were placed , first , on the ...
... legislatures held the same relation to the king as the English House of Commons , and were as absolute in all matters of revenue , within the provinces , as the Commons were for Great Britain . These rights were placed , first , on the ...
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... legislature , drawn up by Samuel Adams , directed them in energetic language , " to use con- stantly " their " power and influence to maintain the invalu- able rights and privileges of the province , as well those which are derived by ...
... legislature , drawn up by Samuel Adams , directed them in energetic language , " to use con- stantly " their " power and influence to maintain the invalu- able rights and privileges of the province , as well those which are derived by ...
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