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conflagration as the rights are slowly rescinded.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

"That whenever any form of Government becomes destructive

colonists were still british subjects. Again, the colonists were

constituent parts of the empite"", yet those duties were always

of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to

colonies were attempting to claim that they were "seceding" from

Majesty's colonies and plantations in America, have of late,

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