Prologue to Revolution: Sources and Documents on the Stamp Act Crisis, 1764-1766UNC Press Books, 2012 M12 1 - 174 páginas This comprehensive documentary source book on the Stamp Act provides a case-study approach to American colonial history and serves as a problems source book on the key event in Anglo-American relations in the 1760s. Morgan has assembled sixty-five crucial documents on all phases of the crisis; on certain acute issues of the controversy nearly all of the relevant materials now extant are included. |
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... Power of making Laws for the Colony , have enjoyed the Right of Taxing the Subject for the Support of the Government . Under this Political Frame , the Colony was settled by Protestant Emigrants from several Parts of Europe 8 PROLOGUE ...
... Power of making Laws for the Colony , have enjoyed the Right of Taxing the Subject for the Support of the Government . Under this Political Frame , the Colony was settled by Protestant Emigrants from several Parts of Europe 8 PROLOGUE ...
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... Power of the Nation in the three great Legisla- tive Branches . But the Advocates for divesting us of the Right to tax ourselves , would by the Success of their Machination , render the Devolution of all civil Power upon the Crown alone ...
... Power of the Nation in the three great Legisla- tive Branches . But the Advocates for divesting us of the Right to tax ourselves , would by the Success of their Machination , render the Devolution of all civil Power upon the Crown alone ...
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... Power and Inde- pendancy of. And if our Contributions to the Sup- port of the Government upon this Con- tinent , or for the Maintenance of an Army , to awe and subdue the Savages should be thought necessary , why shall it be pre- sumed ...
... Power and Inde- pendancy of. And if our Contributions to the Sup- port of the Government upon this Con- tinent , or for the Maintenance of an Army , to awe and subdue the Savages should be thought necessary , why shall it be pre- sumed ...
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... Power of the Colony , to impose all other Burthens upon it's own People , which the publick Exigences may require . Latterly , the Laws of Trade seem to have been framed without an Attention to this fundamental Claim . Permit us , also ...
... Power of the Colony , to impose all other Burthens upon it's own People , which the publick Exigences may require . Latterly , the Laws of Trade seem to have been framed without an Attention to this fundamental Claim . Permit us , also ...
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... Power in the Colonies , in so striking a Point of Light , that it deserves more particular Notice . The Operations of the Year 1759 , were nearly at a Stand for want of Money . The military Chest being exhausted , the General was ...
... Power in the Colonies , in so striking a Point of Light , that it deserves more particular Notice . The Operations of the Year 1759 , were nearly at a Stand for want of Money . The military Chest being exhausted , the General was ...
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Chapter II THE GENESIS OF THE STAMP ACT | 24 |
Chapter III THE ACTION OF THE COLONIAL ASSEMBLIES | 44 |
Chapter IV THE AMERICAN PRESS | 70 |
Chapter V THE BRITISH PRESS | 95 |
Chapter VI THE PATTERN OF REBELLION | 104 |
Chapter VII REPEAL | 127 |
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Prologue to Revolution: Sources and Documents on the Stamp Act Crisis, 1764-1766 Edmund Sears Morgan Vista previa limitada - 1959 |
Prologue to Revolution: Sources and Documents on the Stamp Act Crisis, 1764-1766 Edmund S. Morgan Sin vista previa disponible - 1959 |
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