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Protetion against the arbitrary taking of life, liberty, or property.
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A document that established a "Civil Body Politic" (a temporary government) until one could be more permanently established (ibid.)
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LImited king's power.
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Required all trade between England and the colonies to be carried in English or colonial vessels.
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This prohibited a standing army in peacetime, except with the consent of parliament, and required that all parliamentary elections be free.
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King George III issued a proclamation that forbade colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains.
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Where as previous colonial taxes had been leveied to support local British officials, the tax on sugar was enacted solely to refill Parliament's empty Treasury.
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The law required the use of tax stamps on all legal documents, on certain buisness agreements, and on all newspapers.
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A group of men disguised as Native Americans, boarded three tea ships in the Boston Harbor and dumped the cargo into the sea to protest British control of the tea trade.
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-Delegates from each of the 13 colonies except for Georgia, met in Philedelphia.
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Response to the Boston Tea Party.
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Convention of delegates.
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Marked the outbreak of open armed conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britian and thirteen of its colonies on the mainland of British America.
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Document declaring the United States independent from Britian.
