The Rights of the British Colonies Considered. The Administration And Regulation Of The Colonies Exploded. And the Best Means Recommended to Make the Colonies most useful to the Mother Country
- Anonymous Pamphleteer 1765 (author)
- Jack P. Greene (collection editor)
The Rights of the British Colonies Considered is an 18th-century political pamphlet written as a direct reply to James Otis’s influential tract The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved. The work takes a critical stance toward existing colonial administration and policy, arguing against the prevailing regulatory framework while also proposing what the author considered better approaches to making the colonies more economically beneficial to Britain.
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