1. Government by the People
... under the complete control of Parliament in this way, they were not much more than salves being run by a slave master. The colonists were driven by the notion that they were not free if their government was being run by any people other than themselves--and freedom is precisely what they were after. The more powerful Parliament became ... But with Parliament being the highest governmental authority in Britain, who was there to stop them? There didn't seem to be anyone. This led the colonists to lose faith in Parliament as a leader and an adequate governmental authority over them. Tom Pai...
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