An Application of Some General Political Rules to the Present State of Great-Britain, Ireland, and America. In a Letter to the Right Honourable Earl Temple
- William Greatrakes (author)
- Jack P. Greene (assistant)
This essay is a 1766 pamphlet by William Greatrakes, addressed to Richard Grenville-Temple, the Earl Temple. Published during the height of the Anglo-American constitutional crisis, it forms part of the broader pamphlet debate over British imperial policy toward the American colonies.
Greatrakes applies general principles of political theory to the concurrent situations of Great Britain, Ireland, and America, drawing implicit parallels between the constitutional grievances of Ireland and those of the American colonists.
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