... restrain it. We need a government like England's, he said. The French would never accept it though, for they hated anything to do with the English. On October 5, the Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, a good document all right, but only if it were followed. Twenty-eight days later, the Assembly showed they did not intend to ... since the 1620s during the period of British salutary neglect, in reality, a period of laissez faire government as far as the colonies were concerned. A sense of restraint pervades this whole period. In the Boston Tea Party, no...

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... clearly recall the decades of hostility. They concluded that the rebels, who had campaigned to conquer their territory, insulted the Catholic religion, and belittled their culture, should be kept outside of Quebec.vi Multiple cultural and historical disagreements had alienated the Province of Quebec, not to mention the fact that they had never really liked their southern neighbors under ... peace in Quebec indicated that the compromising taxation itself should not be the basis of the colonists' dissatisfactions. There must have been some more fundamental divergences between the Colonies ...

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