The Age of the Democratic Revolution. A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800
118 Chapter VI war with Britain made it urgent to obtain a loan from France. One suspects that “no taxation without representati ...
The British Parliament 119 need for general and long- range planning. Grenville proposed to keep British regular troops permanen ...
120 Chapter VI can governing class; nor did what they knew of the realities of parliamentary poli- tics inspire them with much c ...
The British Parliament 121 all, though they naturally were a little slow in saying so plainly.^16 On this there may have been mo ...
122 Chapter VI Preparations were soon made to reinforce words with action. Local meetings in many places issued local manifestoe ...
The British Parliament 123 feeble support in the two houses. It therefore took the bold step of going “out of doors” to solicit ...
124 Chapter VI discussion of the American problem. Irish developments had a more than Irish significance. When one speaks of Ire ...
The British Parliament 125 Irish Parliament. It was a blow at the entrenched Anglo- Irish oligarchy, since it required election ...
126 Chapter VI name, was issued for the arrest of the publishers. The courts in 1769 declared gen- eral warrants illegal, and aw ...
The British Parliament 127 even the conservative Blackstone had thought that some decayed boroughs might be abolished. Delolme h ...
128 Chapter VI the Massachusetts towns, which the governor disbanded as an illegal body. The Massachusetts assembly issued a cir ...
The British Parliament 129 acy was their distinctive doctrine, the dogma handed down from 1689, the buckler of liberty, and the ...
130 Chapter VI continued to see in the Rockingham Whigs only a group of malcontents out of office, and to give their votes to Lo ...
The British Parliament 131 none at all, they regarded this measure as a new device to impose taxation, and hence a revival of th ...
132 Chapter VI Britain and America showed some significant differences of interpretation, and it is these arguments that I shoul ...
The British Parliament 133 the upper house was clearly thought of as an estate, sitting in its own right, and dependent neither ...
134 Chapter VI Many of the Rockingham Whigs spoke against the bill. “The Americans have flourished for nearly fourscore years un ...
The British Parliament 135 the King, Lords, and Commons of Great Britain they were under a remote oligar- chy with which they ha ...
136 Chapter VI And when Burke in 1777 again pleaded for conciliation, but blamed the war with the Americans on the mere folly of ...
The British Parliament 137 beings under natural law. The Continental Congress, in its Declaration of Rights of 1774, appealed si ...
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