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$John Dickinson$
$The Late Regulations Respecting the British Colonies$
$Philadelphia, 1765$
$From "Pamphlets of the American Revolution", Edited by Bernard Bailyn$
$Italics in curly brackets, footnotes in square brackets$
$A.C.D.$
<c 1> THE LATE REGULATIONS
Sir,
When I last wrote to you and said "that the late
measures respecting America would not only be extremely
injurious to the colonies but also to Great Britain," I little
thought I was entering into an engagement which would oblige me
to exceed the usual limits of a letter; but since you desire to
have at large the reasons in support of this opinion, and I
always think it my duty to comply with your requests, I will
endeavor in the clearest manner I can to lay my sentiments
before you.
The American continental colonies are inhabited by
persons of small fortune, who are so closely employed in
subduing a wild country for their subsistence and who {would}
labor under such difficulties in contending with old and
populous countr . . .
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$James Mayhew$
$A Discoure concerning unlimited submission and nonresistance to
the higher powers.$
$Boston, 1750$
$From "Pamphlets of the American Revolution", Edited by Bernard Bailyn$
$A.C.D.$
$Italics excluded, footnotes in sqaure brackets$
<c 0> PREFACE
The ensuing discourse is the last of three upon the same
subject, with some little alterations and additions. It is hoped
that but few will think the subject of it an improper one to be
discoursed on in the pulpit, under a notion that this is
preaching politics instead of CHRIST. However, to remove all
prejudices of this sort, I beg it may be remembered that ''all
Scripture . . . is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for
CORRECTION, for instruction in righteousness." Why, then, should
not those parts of Scripture which relate to civil government be
examined and explained from the desk, as well as others?
Obedience to the civil magistrate is a Christian duty: and if
so, why should not the nature, grounds, and extent of it be
c . . .
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$James Otis$
$The Rights of British Colonies Asserted and Proved$
$Boston, 1764$
$From "Pamphlets of the American Revolution", Edited by Bernard Bailyn$
$Italics excluded, footnotes in square brackets$
$A.C.D.$
<c 1> Of the Origin of Government
The origin of government has in all ages no less
perplexed the heads of lawyers and politicians than the origin
of evil has embarrassed divines and philosophers, and 'tis
probable the world may receive a satisfactory solution on both
those points of inquiry at the same time.
The various opinions on the origin of government have
been reduced to four. 1. That dominion is founded in grace. 2.
0n force or mere power. 3. On compact. 4. On property.
The first of these opinions is so absurd, and the world
has paid so very dear for embracing it, especially under the
administration of the Roman pontiffs, that mankind seem at this
day to be in a great measure cured of their madness in this
particular, and the notion is pretty generally exploded and . . .
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$Oxenbridge Thacher$
$The Sentiments of a British American$
$Boston, 1764$
$From "Pamphlets of the American Revolution", Edited by Bernard Bailyn$
$A.C.D.$
$Italics in curly brackets, footnotes in square brackets$
<c 1> SENTIMENTS of a British American
IT WELL becomes the wisdom of a great nation, having
been highly successful in their foreign wars and added a large
extent of country to their dominions, to consider with a
critical attention their internal state lest their prosperity
should destroy them.
Great Britain at this day is arrived to an heighth of
glory and wealth which no European nation hath ever reached
since the decline of the Roman Empire. Everybody knows that it
is not indebted to itself alone for this envied power: that its
colonies, placed in a distant quarter of the earth, have had
their share of efficiency in its late successes, as indeed they
have also contributed to the advancing and increasing its
grandeur from their very first beginnings.
In the forming . . .
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$James Otis$
$A Vindication of the British Colonies against the Aspersions of
the Halifax Gentleman, in His Letter to a Rhode Island Friend$
$Boston, 1765$
$From "Pamphlets of the American Revolution",
Edited by Bernard Bailyn$
$A.C.D.$
$Italics in curly brackets, footnotes in square brackets$
<c 1> A VINDICATION of the British Colonies against the Aspersions
of the Halifax Gentleman, in His Letter to a Rhode Island Friend
IT HAD been long expected that some American pen would
be drawn, in support of those measures which to all thinking men
must appear to be very extraordinary. Those who are above party
can peruse the speculations of a Whig or a Tory, a Quaker or a
Jacobite, with the . same composure of mind. Those who confine
themselves within the bounds of moderation and decency are so
far respectable. All who grow outrageous are disgustful. The
"head of a tribunitian veto" with a mob at his heels and a grand
{Asiatic} monarch with a shoal of sycophants clinging about him,
like . . .
