On June 11th 1776, a five men committee consisting of John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Robert Livingston and Roger Sherman was appointed to write a draft of the Declaration by the Continental Congress. ... Afterwards a trial was held but the British, represented by John Adams and Josiah Quincy III, were acquitted. ... Even the king cannot be immune to the "Laws of Nature". ... Following the preamble is a long list of, historical and political, wrong doings by King George III, who is referred to as "He". ... It appealed to its audience because it was written...

• Word Count: 1859
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

During the American Revolution John Adams deliberated the reasons and worth of the fight. ... Jonathan Mayhew justified overthrowing the King by proving that intentional unjust laws are considered abuse. ... One would see petitions overlooked and the foolish and harshness of the crown (a.k.a. the King). ... John's Church, Richmond, Virginia, he calls for the people to stand up and fight with their fellow brothers. ... The law set against the colonists were unjust, and the King did not change them regardless of how many petitions the...

• Word Count: 1713
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• Grade Level: High School

Although Britain had won the war, King George II decided to undertake a new colonial policy intended to tighten political control over its rather autonomous colonies. ... This aggravated the colonies in America as the King wanted them to help pay for their defence and the expenses. ... "The Bloody Massacre in King-Street,"6 which was probably the most effective piece of war propaganda, depicts the British massacring peaceful colonists in cold blood. ...

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This however only angered the king more, only adding to the growing bitterness between Great Britain and the colonies. ... As time went on, the king passed acts that enabled him to be able to appoint people to positions of power in the colonies instead of the people living there. ... Lastly, the king finally passed what are called the Prohibitory Acts. ... With this, John Locke's political ideals enveloped the nation. ... Because King Charles III could not help but tax the colonies and take away what little power they had, he lost his colonies and helped to forge one of the strongest na...

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The story opens in England, October 26, 1775, with King George III of England addressing the British Parliament on the war in the North American colonies. ... McCullough offers the British perspective on the events in faraway North America first, re-creating the debate in Parliament over the king's decision to quash the rebellion. ... He writes evenhandedly about the British generals Howe, Henry Clinton, John Burgoyne, and Charles Cornwallis. Howe had served under General James Wolfe, who called him "the best officer in the King's service.... Readers interested in a wider view...

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" is there any inhabitant in America so ignorant, as not to know, that according to what is called the PRESENT CONSTITUTION, that this continent can make no laws but what the king gives it leave to; and is there any man so unwise, as not to see, that (considering what has happened) he will suffer no law to be made here, but such as suit HIS purpose." ... After the end of the civil war in England, and the restoration of King Charles II, England closed its grip on the colonies. ... Faced with the discontent of the colonists, ranging from insubstantial talk right up to the open rebellions ...

• Word Count: 1820
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Henceforth the king was the sole repository of sovereign power. In a very real sense the king was the state. ... Philosophers as the father of liberal theory John Locke spread a body of ideas of reform to lead French people through the liberty path and make them believe there was a chance for a better life. ... Again the picture is the same as in the French Revolution: the appearance of a tyrannical government "The King George who felt that it would maintain the general principle that this government had the right to impose citizen's duties" and people fighting for their rights "The...

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In John Dickinson's "Letter 2" from Letters from a Farmer he writes, "If Great-Britain can order us to come to her for necessaries we want, and can order us to pay what taxes she pleases before we take them away, or when we land them here, we are as abject slaves as France and Poland can show in wooden shoes, and with uncombed hair", [Dic68]. ... In a letter from a Boston merchant named John Andrews to his brother in Philadelphia it says, "I sincerely believe they [the British Parliament] intend to carry out their threats, which are to make the town a desolate wil...

• Word Count: 1821
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They were afraid of the king getting too strong, and they wished to maintain local control. ... John Adams complained in a letter to his wife and stated, "our struggle has loosened the bands of government everywhere" (Nash 126). ... In a letter from Abigail Adams to her husband John Adams, she says, "Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. ...

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Following the establishment of King Henry VII's efforts to control England both politically and religiously titled the English Reformation, there was turmoil throughout. ... The Puritans means of achieving their godly society was by establishing a "City upon a hill" as described by their leader John Winthrop (75). ... However the first New England colony, Massachusetts had both a political and religious leader, John Winthrop. John Winthrop was the founder of the Puritan colony, as well as the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony. ...

• Word Count: 1906
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Incidents such as the seizure of a ship belonging to John Hancock (1768), the Boston massacre in 1770 and the burning of the H.M.S.Gaspee in 1772 kept the flame of rebellion lit. ... A petition was sent to the King. ... The Declaration then goes on to mention a large number of grievances against the monarchy (Referred to as "HE", which should be taken as reference to the King of England). ...

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Looking at the Sugar act, which was created in 1763 by George Grenville who was appointed first minister, by King George III to solving England's debt crisis.# This act is the beginning of Britain's colonies, America to resist imperial control over them. ... Harcourt College Publishers, 6277 Sea Harbor Drive, Orlando, FL. 2.Garraty, John. ...

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• Grade Level: High School