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This page is the way to travel links to some interesting points about how the
New England Colonists viewed the law.
The points expressed in the 1774 convention of
the Americans.
The points they expressed were not new to the colonists. The
Massachusetts and Rhode Island colonists had charter documents founded on the
same legal theories.
Massachusetts Bay Colony charter
Rhode Island charter.
The 1770 law theories.
The use of law by the colonists as a weapon to
stop English enforcement of English Parliament's statutes. |