Kris Maulden's Sections - March 9/10
This week we will be debating the Revolution, as all of you will take up the American side and I will take the British side. For material, read unit 4 of the online reader and "Common Sense" from unit 5, and begin to work your way through chapters 5 and 6. Also, if you want to use other laws, pamphlets, and other documents, you can find them here. You will be driving discussion this week, so you need to ask your own questions or make your own statements under the comments, but here is mine:
The colonies "have been, are, and of right ought to be, subordinate unto, and dependent upon the imperial crown and parliament of Great Britain" (Declaratory Act, 1766), so the British government has the right to pass legislation and tax the colonies however it pleases. Therefore, what right do the colonists have to resist in the first place?
The colonies "have been, are, and of right ought to be, subordinate unto, and dependent upon the imperial crown and parliament of Great Britain" (Declaratory Act, 1766), so the British government has the right to pass legislation and tax the colonies however it pleases. Therefore, what right do the colonists have to resist in the first place?
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What are the greatest similarities and differences between the Declaration of Independence and the Resolves of the First Continental Congress? Do you think they are more similar or dissimilar?
What are some of Thomas Paine’s main grievances of monarchial government and hereditary succession? What is one good thing he had to say about each?
Thomas Paine said,"Europe, and not England, is the parent country of America...Not one third of the inhabitants, even of this province, are of English descent. Wherefore, I reprobate the phrase of parent or mother country applied to England only, as being false, selfish, narrow and ungenerous." How did the settlers from other European countries feel about this tax? Did they feel that it applied to them as well?
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