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... . In March , 1764 , Grenville began to put into operation a plan for the taxation of the American colonies , with the threefold object of increasing the British revenue to meet the large debt contracted in the French 10 THOMAS JEFFERSON.
... . In March , 1764 , Grenville began to put into operation a plan for the taxation of the American colonies , with the threefold object of increasing the British revenue to meet the large debt contracted in the French 10 THOMAS JEFFERSON.
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... French from the St. Lawrence and Mississippi valleys . In addition to various tariff duties levied by the Act of April , 1764 , the ministry announced its intention of imposing on the American colonies the next year an " internal tax ...
... French from the St. Lawrence and Mississippi valleys . In addition to various tariff duties levied by the Act of April , 1764 , the ministry announced its intention of imposing on the American colonies the next year an " internal tax ...
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... French Revolution . Who shall say how many regiments the Declaration of Independence was worth to the great patriot who bore the burden of our tottering cause from Brooklyn Heights to Yorktown ! One other service of far - reaching ...
... French Revolution . Who shall say how many regiments the Declaration of Independence was worth to the great patriot who bore the burden of our tottering cause from Brooklyn Heights to Yorktown ! One other service of far - reaching ...
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... French philosophers of the eighteenth century to explain Jefferson's language . " The natural rights of man " was a doctrine as old as the Roman law , and " government by consent of the governed " was the principle for which the ...
... French philosophers of the eighteenth century to explain Jefferson's language . " The natural rights of man " was a doctrine as old as the Roman law , and " government by consent of the governed " was the principle for which the ...
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... French and circulated as a pamphlet . It was received with great enthusi- asm in Europe . And well it might be ! For al- though there were lands in which religious persecu- tion had wholly ceased in western Europe , there was no ...
... French and circulated as a pamphlet . It was received with great enthusi- asm in Europe . And well it might be ! For al- though there were lands in which religious persecu- tion had wholly ceased in western Europe , there was no ...
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