Considerations on the American Stamp-Act, and on the Conduct of the Minister Who Planned It
- Anonymous Pamphleteer 1766 (author)
- Jack P. Greene (collection editor)
This essay is an anonymous pamphlet from 1766. As its title suggests, the pamphlet critically examines the Stamp Act — Britain’s controversial tax on American colonial documents — and takes aim at the government minister responsible for crafting it (widely understood to be George Grenville). It belongs to a broader body of British political literature debating the rights and grievances of the American colonies in the years leading up to the Revolution, and is held in collections alongside works on loyalists, patriots, and the constitutional questions of that era.
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