American Revolution

             During the late seventeen hundreds, many tumultuous events
             resulted in Colonial opposition to Great Britain. The conditions
             of rights of the colonists will slowly be changed as the
             constriction of the parliament becomes more and more intolerable.
             During the Seven Years' War England was not only alarmed by the
             colonists' insistence on trading with the enemy, but also with
             Boston merchants hiring James Otis inorder to protest the
             legality of the writs of assistance (general search warrants)
             used to hunt out smuggled goods. "let the parliament lay what
             burthens they please on us, we must, it is our duty to submit and
             patiently bear them, till they will be pleased to relieve
             us....". This is a very strong dictum, that in 1764, the
             colonists were of a submissive nature, and were weakly pleading
             for self-autonomy. This small fire of anger will become a huge
             conflagration as the rights are slowly rescinded.
             On October 19, 1765 the Stamp Act Congress and
             Parliamentary Taxation committee's passed some laws that
             attempted to strengthen the grip of the English crown.
             "I.That his Majesty's subjects in these colonies, owe the same
             allegiance to the Crown of Great Britain that is owing from his
             subjects born within the realm, and all due subordination to
             that august body, the Parliament of Great Britain."
             This statement can be used as a summation of the entire document
             that the Stamp Act Congress had initiated. The statement depicts
             the colonists has having to be submissive and servile in the view
             of Great Britain, this policy angered the colonists very much, and
             was another component of the transition of the colonists'
             When the Declatory Act was passed in March of 1766, many
             colonies were attempting to claim that they were "seceding" from
             "Whereas several of the houses of representatives in his
             Majesty's colonies and plantations in America, have of late,
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