Title page from The Right of the British Legislature to Tax the Colonies Considered, in a Letter to the Right Hon. Frederick Lord North

The Right of the British Legislature to Tax the Colonies Considered, in a Letter to the Right Hon. Frederick Lord North

This essay is an anonymous 1774 pamphlet addressed to the British Prime Minister, Lord North, that engages with one of the most heated political controversies of the era: whether Parliament had the legitimate authority to tax the American colonies.

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