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ideas of limited government and civil rights had been basic to English law since even before A.D 1215, when the English nobility had forced king john to sine magna carta
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all men and women to rule of law
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it halved the duty on foreign made molasses in hopes that colonists would pay a lower tax, 1764
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this act imposed a tax on documents printed items such as wills
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one of the founders of the sons of liberty
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maintained that people have natural right to life, liberty and property
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a mob gathered in front of the Boston customs house and taunted the British soldiers standing guard there. Shots were fired
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the Indians dumped 18,000 pounds of the east India company's tea into the waters of Boston harbor
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one law that shut down the Boston harbor.
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the night of april 18, 1775, paul revere, william dawes, and samuel prescott rode out to spread word that 700 british troops
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in may of 1775 , colonial leaders called the second continental congress in Philadelphia to debate their next move
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on June 17, 1775, Gage sent 2,400 British soldiers up the hill.
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Thomas Jefferson, Virginia lawyer
sumer of 1776, the wavering continental congress finally decied to urge each colony to form its own government. June 7 , virginia delegate.
