... the Continental Congress, signatory of the Declaration of Independence. From the beginning, he showed a firm resistance to parliaments taxing the colonies without their consent. He clearly showed his opposition to Sugar Act by denouncing it and being one of the first of colonials to cry out against taxation without representation. He was the member of the sons of liberty, a radical movement ... the ruined tea. When the British closed Boston harbor and annulled the charter of Massachusetts in response to the Boston Tea Party, all the colonies became alarmed. Through the inter-colonial co...

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