Compare And Contrast The Ways In Which Supporters Of The American Revolution

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Supporters of the American Revolution argued for the right of freedom from taxation and the right to govern themselves. While the opponents argued that Great Britain gives the colonies political protection and economic security.

In Letter of a Patriot it said “ To enforce this unconstitutional and unjust scheme of taxation, that our British ancestors established against arbitrary power was violently thrown down in America, and their right of trial by jury was taken away.” Great Britain tried to find a way to get out of its 140 million debt, one of the ways was the Stamp Act. Which made it were you had to pay extra on almost everything. The colonies weren’t allowed to buy from other nations without being taxed and anything from the foreigners,

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