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Public Papers
A Summary View of the Rights of British America
by
Thomas Jefferson
[Selections. 1984] Writings. Library of America. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, 1984
A SUMMARY VIEW OF THE RIGHTS OF BRITISH AMERICA
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 have given equally and independently to all. To represent to his majesty that these his states have often individually made humble application to his imperial throne to obtain, through its in . . .
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