Considerations on the Points Lately Brought into Question as to the Parliament's Right of Taxing the Colonies, and of the Measures Necessary to Be Taken at This Crisis.Being an Appendix, Section III, to The Administration of the Colonies
- Thomas Pownall (author)
- Jack P. Greene (collection editor)
This 1766 pamphlet by Thomas Pownall, was published as an appendix to his broader work The Administration of the Colonies. It engages with the heated debate in Great Britain over Parliament’s authority to tax the American colonies, weighing in on both the constitutional questions at stake and the practical measures the British government should consider in response to colonial resistance.
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