1775 Legal Thinking

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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.