... the habitants appeal to the proposition of mutiny.ii The likely causes of their indifferences were the cultural barriers. The habitants in Quebec regarded the forthcoming war as a "British family quarrel of no interest to them". Hence, they were not influenced by the appeal to the Rights of Englishmen guaranteed in Magna Carta, with which they had relatively little ... . Exports from Quebec had always suffered from the competition of the Thirteen Colonies, and the colonists continuously paid the habitants paper money, worthless to them, for supplies seized from their farms.vii In general...

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