The Crisis or, a Full Defence of the Colonies
- Anonymous Pamphleteer 1766 (author)
- Jack P. Greene (collection editor)
This anonymous pamphlet addresses parliamentary representation and taxation, two preoccupations of the period. This text critiques virtual representation as new and asks what such a practice could possibly look like? The writer reasoned that Parliament would be obliged to receive all American petitions. Yet, “when the Stamp Bill was in agitation, not a single soul would present a petition from the poor Americans.” To the idea that revenue petitions were disallowed, the writer notes that earlier petitions against the cyder tax were accepted and the right of petitioning was “never once questioned.”
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