Whigs against Whigs against Whigs: The Imperial Debates of 1765–76 Reconsidered
In the essay featured here, Eric Nelson argues that in the early 1770s patriots dropped their previous insistence that Parliament was sovereign over the colonies but simply lacked authority to impose internal taxes, and instead adopted the dominion theory, returning to the constitutional position of...
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Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
2012
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/72378 |