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To: Neocon who wrote (138803)	7/5/2004 9:39:56 AM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (2) of 281500

Sometimes they were, actually. But would you care to say more? Maybe a couple of items... In 1774, they wrote up their Declaration of Rights in Philadelphia, declaration.net complaining among other things on the Stamp Act of 1765. Whiners. The Stamp Act of 1765 was only in effect for 4 months and then repealed by King George III ... eight years later they were still whining about a repealed Act. It was a small and pretty reasonable tax, at that and coordinated with the colony before it went into effect. Asking the colonies to pay for a small percentage of the cost to defense, doesn't seem all that unreasonable to me. There were no direct taxes on the colony prior to that. A tax free haven and the colonists thought that England should pay for their entire defense. totse.com Personnaly, my favorite example was the Quebec Act, labelled by the founding fathers as a "Coercive Act", and an act of tyrany. Sounds bad. But the Quebec Act merely guaranteed that Catholics in Quebec would be permitted to practice their religion. An act of tyranny? The Quartering Act was another one. When Georgia refused to comply, England said, ok...no British troops. Georgia decided it was in their best interests to pay the pittance out of their own colonial treasury. jttmab

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