American Revloution

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Parliament were taking advantage of their power over the colonies, is summed up by the Declaration of Independence, "…it is the Right of the people to alter or to abolish ["…any Form of Government (that) becomes destructi

loyalty to the king. By 1772, a Boston town meeting responded to the Quartering Act stating their dissatisfaction with it, and that it was an unconstitutional law. The colinists saw itself as having its own constitution, and that it was their right to disobey any laws that went against it. This type of relationship became more and more clear as time went by, however loyalty to the king remained. Then, by July of 1774, the Intolerable Acts had taken effect, closing down Boston’s port to trade, and affecting the trial process in America. As a result, the Bostonians became very angry at parliament. Thomas Jefferson responded blatantly to it, saying that Parliament had finally gone too far when it disallowed Boston to trade. In September of 1774, 56 representatives from all 13 colonies formed the First Continental Congress, in order to discuss what to do. They stated that every colonist had the right of "being tried by their peers," and that "keeping a standing army…is against law,” Although the colonists didn’t like Parliament’s actions of taxing them, with all of the acts they passed, they didn’t mind very much if they regulated trade, but only wished to keep their "old privileges" of being able to tax and govern themselves.

ve of (the natural rights of Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness)…"]…”

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