A Letter to a Member of Parliament on the Present Unhappy Dispute between Great-Britain and Her Colonies. Wherein the Supremacy of the Former Is Asserted and Proved; and the Necessity of Compelling the Latter to Pay Due Obedience to the Sovereign...
- Anonymous Pamphleteer 1774 (author)
- Jack P. Greene (collection editor)
This is an 18th-century pro-British pamphlet and as its full title indicates, it takes a staunchly loyalist stance — arguing for Parliament’s supremacy over the American colonies and making the case that the colonies must be compelled to render proper obedience to the British sovereign. It belongs to a broader genre of British pamphlet literature from the years leading up to the American Revolution, in which authors on both sides debated the constitutional relationship between Parliament and the colonies, the legitimacy of colonial taxation, and the question of imperial authority.
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