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<Author>Jefferson, Thomas</Author>
<Title>A Summary View of the Rights of British America</Title>
<Title>Public Papers</Title>
<Edition>[Selections. 1984] Writings. Library of America. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, 1984</Edition>
<Date>1774</Date>
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<p>A SUMMARY VIEW OF THE RIGHTS OF BRITISH AMERICA
<p>Resolved, that it be an instruction to the said deputies,
when assembled in general congress with the deputies from
the other states of British America, to propose to the said
congress that an humble and dutiful address be presented to
his majesty, begging leave to lay before him, as chief
magistrate of the British empire, the united complaints of
his majesty's subjects in America; complaints which are
excited by many unwarrantable encroachments and usurpations,
attempted to be made by the legislature of one part of the
empire, upon those rights which God and the laws hav . . .
