William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, And the Growth And Division of the British Empire, 1708-1778;
William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, And the Growth And Division of the British Empire, 1708-1778;
Green, Walford Davis
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Franklin was too familiar with the constant disputes between 1765] The Stamp Act. 231 in Parliament, which was the great council of the Empire, and as capable of imposing internal taxes as navigation laws. Their charters could not override Parliament ; it was not within the prerogative to emancipate English subjects from the dominion of Parliament. The Commons were impressed by these ai^u- ments, knowing as they did the heavy burden of taxation in Great Britain. The only opposition came from Co...nway and from Barr6, the latter of whom, in his ** Sons of Liberty " speech, realised very acutely the spirit in which the Americans re- sisted the act. There was force in the contention that the colonists had profited greatly by the war, and ought to share in the expenses it entailed, al- though that contention was exaggerated when it was urged that the war had been undertaken entirely on behalf of the colonies. The war had been far more a British than an American concern, and British statesmen would never have undertaken such an en- terprise simply on account of colonial interests; in previous policy, at the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle for example, colonial interests were strictly subordina^ ted to those of the mother country.
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